You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
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 knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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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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Even as a child, I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to wear red lipstick.
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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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The film [Dream of Life] doesn’t hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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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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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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I’ve lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.
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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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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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Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
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