Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988

Topics

BestMoneyPeopleAwfulMadeSome

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Jimmy Carter

HateComplacencySeePrevailChrist

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

Jerry Saltz

GoodArtUglyBadBoringUs

I really looked up to Grace Kelly when I was growing up. I thought she was just so beautiful and elegant. I wanted to grow up to be like her.

Jessica Jung

BeautifulGraceGrowing UpThought

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

John Gay

LoveWomanFlyGrowLeavePursue

The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays.

John Hersey

MomentSicknessBodyNewReaction

I've never been a jealous person, and I've never felt built up by someone else's failure - that's a cheap thrill.

Matthew McConaughey

FailureJealousSomeonePersonNever

I feel like I let people know I'm not a toy.

Metta World Peace

PeopleFeelKnowI Feel LikeToy

Competition is the best way to ensure prescription drugs are affordable.

Amy Klobuchar

BestCompetitionWayBest WayEnsure

When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the light off, putting my head down and then all the thoughts. I don't want al those thoughts... thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts and I'm: 'I don't want this'. I have to knock myself out to go to sleep.

Robbie Williams

LightMyselfSleepThoughtsDownGo

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.

Martin Van Buren

BestOpinionAccomplishmentYouBeen

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

Luke Bryan

PeopleSongCreateNothingMoreAir

So how does Liz Phair feel about Lana Del Rey? Well, as a recording artist, I've been hated, I've been ridiculed, and conversely, hailed as the second coming. All that matters in the end is that I've been heard.

Liz Phair

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