A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
PATTI SMITHRemember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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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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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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The film [Dream of Life] doesn’t hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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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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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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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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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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Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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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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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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