You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
PATTI SMITHTo be an artist – actually, to be a human being in these times – it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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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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I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.
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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 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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Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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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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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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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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One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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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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