"I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot."

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Source : Jean-Michel Basquiat, Civico museo Revoltella (1999). “Basquiat”, Walker Art Center

Jean-Michel Basquiat

#Stars Quotes #Fame Quotes #Gallery Quotes

“Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.”
“The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.”
“The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.”

Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage
“A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.”

Source : Twitter post from May 15, 2012
“It is with words as with sunbeams-the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”

Source : "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" ed. by Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Company, (p. 52), 1908.
“If you're talking 100 years, there's no doubt in my mind that all jobs will be gone, including creative ones. And 100 years is not far in the future - some of our children will be alive in 100 years.”
“Let's just say I'm like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it's time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing - one that couldn't fly away.'”
“Oh, yeah. A big part of my job is drinking martinis when I work in advertising.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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