I’ve always considered myself a writer.
PATTI SMITHI knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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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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Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
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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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The film [Dream of Life] doesn’t hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
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I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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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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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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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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Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
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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’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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To 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.
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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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