A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
PATTI SMITHI was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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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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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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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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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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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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I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
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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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I’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone’s vision, because in the end, that’s what you got: your clay in someone else’s hands.
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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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Even as a child, I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to wear red lipstick.
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I was never a singer, I can’t play any instruments, I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn’t have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.
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