Even as a child, I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to wear red lipstick.
PATTI SMITHLife is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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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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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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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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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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Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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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 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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Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
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My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn’t come anymore, but I had his support.
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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
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