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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.

Patti Smith

The film [Dream of Life] doesn’t hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
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Darkness Dream Sorrow
Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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Brother Distant Future Heart
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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Believe Hand Mind
One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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Day One Together Work
Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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Closets Quiet Writing
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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Pocket Two World
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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Live Magic Naive People Think
In 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?
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Art Period Point Talk Zoos
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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Collaborator Lost Photograph
You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
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Good Scales Trust Zipper
The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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Book Inspired Two
Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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Mortals Poetry Remember
So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.
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Eye Light Recognition Sleep
Even as a child, I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to wear red lipstick.
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Children Lipstick Need Red
What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
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Artist Ethic Morale Work
I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
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Artist Hungered Proof Stuff

Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.

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