Jean Michel Basquiat - click name for biography
· I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.
-Jean Michel Basquiat
· I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.
-Jean Michel Basquiat
· I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist, or I'd draw a ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect spiderman.
-Jean Michel Basquiat
· I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
-Jean Michel Basquiat
· Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
-Jean Michel Basquiat
· Since I was 17 I thought I might be a star.
-Jean Michel Basquiat
· SAMO Graffiti - Basquiat began as a graffiti artist, signing his name as SAMO. Below are a few SAMO sayings or SAMO quotes..
-Jean Michel Basquiat
· SAMO as a neo art form.
-Jean Michel Basquiat
· SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
-Jean Michel Basquiat
· SAMO as an escape clause.
-Jean Michel Basquiat
· SAMO as an end to playing art.
-Jean Michel Basquiat
· SAMO as an end to bogus pseudo intellectual. My mouth, therefore an error. Plush safe.. he think.
-Jean Michel Basquiat
· SAMO as an alternative 2 playing art with the 'radical chic' sect on Daddy's $ funds.
-Jean Michel Basquiat
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