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?
PATTI SMITHI had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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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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One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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Everybody’s got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock’n’roll, political activismand it’s got to be done over and over again. It’s like eating: you can’t say,’Oh, I ate yesterday’.You have to eat again.
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I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
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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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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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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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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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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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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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I was never a singer, I can’t play any instruments, I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn’t have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.
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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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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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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?
PATTI SMITH