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.
PATTI SMITHA good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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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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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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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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The film [Dream of Life] doesn’t hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
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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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Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
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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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I’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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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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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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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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