Even as a child, I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to wear red lipstick.
PATTI SMITHA good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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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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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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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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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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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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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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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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You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
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I don’t know why, the very first word on my very first record is ‘Jesus.’ I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.
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I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.
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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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Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
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What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
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