Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
PATTI SMITHI had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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To be an artist – actually, to be a human being in these times – it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.
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I was never a singer, I can’t play any instruments, I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn’t have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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I’ve lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.
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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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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 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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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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A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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I’m from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.
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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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The film [Dream of Life] doesn’t hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
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