You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
PATTI SMITHWill you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
More Patti Smith Quotes
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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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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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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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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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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 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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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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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’ve always had a desire to write something and capture people’s imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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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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I was never a singer, I can’t play any instruments, I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn’t have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.
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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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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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