Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
PATTI SMITHNever let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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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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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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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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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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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 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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I’m a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I’m happy.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
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