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Patti Smith

Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.
PATTI SMITH

Artist Nothing Subject Two
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
I felt alien my whole life but I didn’t feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
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Alien Gender People
The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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Book Inspired Two
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PATTI SMITH

Assume Boyfriend Hope Pretend
I don’t know why, the very first word on my very first record is ‘Jesus.’ I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.
PATTI SMITH

First Jesus Record
Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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Brother Distant Future Heart
I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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Nostalgic Person Really
I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
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Loneliness Space Understood
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.
PATTI SMITH

Believe Hand Mind
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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Limelight Long Need People Perform
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
Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
PATTI SMITH

Closets Quiet Writing
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?
PATTI SMITH

Animate Art Period Talk Zoo
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
I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
PATTI SMITH

Laureate Long Poet

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