I felt alien my whole life but I didn’t feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
PATTI SMITHI refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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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 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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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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Even as a child, I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to wear red lipstick.
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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’m not really a nostalgic person.
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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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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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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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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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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 refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.
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