Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
PATTI SMITHIn my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one’s work caged in art’s great zoos – the Modern, the Met, the Louvre?
More Patti Smith Quotes
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Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
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I’m a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I’m happy.
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Well, I’m not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I’m performing, that’s what I’m doing. If I’m not, I don’t long for it. I don’t need the approval of an audience, or applause.
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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I started resenting how much art robs from life. I’d go to a party and I couldn’t enjoy myself, even sexually. All I could think was how I was going to reinvent the experience into a piece of art.
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I’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late ’50s and early ’60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.
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I’m okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I’ll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I’m in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.
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I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.
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Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.
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I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
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I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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