Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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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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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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 lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.
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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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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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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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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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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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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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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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My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn’t come anymore, but I had his support.
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I’m from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.
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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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