Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
PATTI SMITHEverybody’s got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock’n’roll, political activismand it’s got to be done over and over again. It’s like eating: you can’t say,’Oh, I ate yesterday’.You have to eat again.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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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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Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
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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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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 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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I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
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My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn’t come anymore, but I had his support.
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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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The film [Dream of Life] doesn’t hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
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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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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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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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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’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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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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