Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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 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 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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One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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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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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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I’m okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I’ll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I’m in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.
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Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.
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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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I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
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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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Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
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I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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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’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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