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.
PATTI SMITHShould I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
More Patti Smith Quotes
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A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
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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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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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I’m from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.
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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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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 don’t know why, the very first word on my very first record is ‘Jesus.’ I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.
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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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I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
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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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Even as a child, I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to wear red lipstick.
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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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You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
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I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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