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.
PATTI SMITHI 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.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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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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I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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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’ve always considered myself a writer.
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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 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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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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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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People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone’s vision, because in the end, that’s what you got: your clay in someone else’s hands.
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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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A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
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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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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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