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New Mexico is an environment where we are open for business. — Susana Martinez

Confidence, ultimately, is the characteristic that distinguishes those who imagine from those who do. — Katty Kay

I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

I'm not a real person. I'm a legend. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

I wanted to build up a name for myself. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. — Frank Winfield Woolworth

I have 20 wigs at home that I play with. — Rita Ora

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

The more I paint the more I like everything. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients. — Oscar Levant

I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

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

She loved Anne better than she loved her own abilities. — Jane Austen

The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

I am not a black artist, I am an artist. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

Medicine men live in caves. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

In my heart, I'm always in my rail-hosen. — Alex Ebert

Man plans, God laughs. — Erik Larson

Every single line means something. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's just a mood. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India. — Shashi Tharoor

The wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone. — Conn Iggulden

Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell. — Patricia Highsmith

There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.' — Jean-Michel Basquiat

I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

Charles Saatchi has never liked my work at all. — Jean-Michel Basquiat