Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
PATTI SMITHIn 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?
More Patti Smith Quotes
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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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One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.
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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 had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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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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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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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 is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
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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 understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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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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