"I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day."

-- Jean-Michel Basquiat

#Real Quotes #Kids Quotes #Artist Quotes

“I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.”
“Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU.”
“One of the things that I have seen change that warms the cockles of my heart is what is happening in the cosmetics industry. For years, they were doing horrible things to animals in the manufacture of cosmetics, and testing of the most barbaric types; today, if you go into a drugstore and go down the [cosmetics] aisle, look at how many of them say no animal testing. I've talked with people who work in the cosmetics departments, and they tell me, Without that, you can't sell them. And that's wonderful!”
“Do you think that clothes have a life of their own, and maybe have unsuitable affairs with opposite styles? I mean - you look at some people - their clothes go on flirting long after the people inside them have lost interest.”
“Solitude is essentially the discovery and acceptance of our uniqueness.”

Source : Laurence Freeman (1996). “Web of silence: letters to meditators”
“Those years between drama school and getting onto the stand-up circuit were pretty lean.”
“I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public humiliation. A man may be personally ever so well off, and yet if his country be ruined he must be ruined with it; whereas a flourishing commonwealth always affords chances of salvation to unfortunate individuals.”
“I love being a star more than life itself.”

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