Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
PATTI SMITHThe two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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I’m okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I’ll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I’m in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.
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All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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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 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’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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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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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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Even as a child, I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to wear red lipstick.
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I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late ’50s and early ’60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.
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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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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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A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
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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 had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
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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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Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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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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Well, I’m not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I’m performing, that’s what I’m doing. If I’m not, I don’t long for it. I don’t need the approval of an audience, or applause.
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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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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 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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