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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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 think it’s important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.
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I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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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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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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I’ve lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.
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My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn’t come anymore, but I had his support.
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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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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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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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Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)
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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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I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
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One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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