With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn’t know who to work with.
PATTI SMITHLife isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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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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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’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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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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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’m not really a nostalgic person.
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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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I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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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 had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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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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