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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More Patti Smith Quotes
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I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
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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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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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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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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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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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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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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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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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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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A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
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I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late ’50s and early ’60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.
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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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I’m a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I’m happy.
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Even as a child, I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to wear red lipstick.
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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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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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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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I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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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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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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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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You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
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