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You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.

Patti Smith

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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Artist Nothing Subject Two
Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
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Horizontal Lines Neat World
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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Desire Emerald Loss
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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Fun Go Inspirational Letting
One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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Day One Together Work
The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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Book Inspired Two
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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Art Piece Sexually Thinking
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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Alien Gender People
I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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Laureate Long Poet
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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Drinking Idea Reading
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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Art Period Point Talk Zoos
Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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Brother Distant Future Heart
Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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Fire Love Romantic
Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
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Adventure Design Fate
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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Couple Father Loss
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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Collaborator Lost Photograph

You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.

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