A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
PATTI SMITHDesire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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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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You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
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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’m okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I’ll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I’m in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.
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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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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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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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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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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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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 was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
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Everybody’s got to reclaim these thingspoetry, rock’n’roll, political activismand it’s got to be done over and over again. It’s like eating: you can’t say,’Oh, I ate yesterday’.You have to eat again.
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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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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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The film [Dream of Life] doesn’t hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
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