Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes

My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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• It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Know
  • Me
  • Stupid

• The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • World
  • Heart
  • Culture

• I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Think
  • Very
  • Respectful

• I generally have a brand of brief on every day.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Brand

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Work
  • Home
  • Revolution

• If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Married

• A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Marriage
  • Sad
  • Act

• So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.

  

  Jack Markell
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Me

• We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Hope
  • Player
  • Baseball

• Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • May
  • Road
  • English

• Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • End
  • Financial
  • Revolution

• No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Life
  • Education
  • Pain

• Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • World
  • Friend
  • Moving

• As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want. They would prefer that I should do my work coarsely and not too well, ay, not well enough. When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Work
  • Different
  • Business

• In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognise, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • God
  • Mind

• It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bluegrass that I wouldn't necessarily call bluegrass, but what they're calling country music today I'm not sure that I would call country music. But I love music and I try to encourage people.

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• The hard truth is that there are people who believe they're writers and work hard at it and are sincere about it, but they don't make it. You have to be prepared for that possibility.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

  

  Jerzy Kosinski

• I'm definitely of the mindset of "I wouldn't want to be part of any group that would have me as a member."

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Want
  • Groups
  • Mindset

• I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Myself
  • End

• If you look at the single-payer systems, like Scandinavia, Canada, and elsewhere, they can get costs down because, you know, although their care, according to statistics, overall is as good or better on primary care, in particular, they do impose things like waiting times, you know.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Canada
  • Scandinavia
  • Single-payer systems

• Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

  

  Ariana Franklin
  • Identity
  • Security
  • Crime

• My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.

  

  Jean-Michel Basquiat