The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
PATTI SMITHNever let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.
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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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Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
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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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Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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I think it’s important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.
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With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn’t know who to work with.
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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)
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For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.
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I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.
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A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
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One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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