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.
PATTI SMITHI’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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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I was never a singer, I can’t play any instruments, I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn’t have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.
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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 felt alien my whole life but I didn’t feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.
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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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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’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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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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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
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What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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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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I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
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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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