Quote by Jean-Michel Basquiat
Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. Id think about

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. Id think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix… I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous. – Jean-Michel Basquiat

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I dont listen to what art critics say. I dont know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. – Jean-Michel Basquiat

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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

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Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen? – Tom Sizemore

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If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror. – Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Once you start telling people youre famous, they believe you. – Melissa de la Cruz

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In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known – that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. – Norman O. Brown

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The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning. – Arthur Erickson

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