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.
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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I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
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With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn’t know who to work with.
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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 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 two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
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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’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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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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People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone’s vision, because in the end, that’s what you got: your clay in someone else’s hands.
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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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You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
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