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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

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From a young age, Basquiat imagined himself becoming famous like the musicians he admired. He felt a dreamy, idealized sense of how these artists achieved their success.

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