Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
PATTI SMITHFor Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
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All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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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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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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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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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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Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.
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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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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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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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I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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