Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
PATTI SMITHLife isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
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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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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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Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
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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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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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One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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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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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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Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
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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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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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I’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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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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