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I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.

Patti Smith

The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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Book Inspired Two
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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Pocket Two World
I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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Laureate Long Poet
All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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Children Want Wonderful
Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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Mortals Poetry Remember
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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Art Piece Sexually Thinking
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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Animate Art Period Talk Zoo
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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Artist Nothing Subject Two
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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Live Magic Naive People Think
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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Believe Hand Mind
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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Fun Go Inspirational Letting
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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Artist Ethic Morale Work
I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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Always Consider Myself Writer
You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
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Good Scales Trust Zipper
I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
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Loneliness Space Understood
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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Alien Gender People

I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.

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