Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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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For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.
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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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All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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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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I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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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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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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One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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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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Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
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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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You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
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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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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 knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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