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The film [Dream of Life] doesn’t hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.

Patti Smith

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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Art Period Point Talk Zoos
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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Actual Artist Human Matters
The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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Book Inspired Two
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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Political Rock Yesterday
I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
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Loneliness Space Understood
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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Believe Hand Mind
Even as a child, I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to wear red lipstick.
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Children Lipstick Need Red
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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Drinking Idea Reading
Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
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Horizontal Lines Neat World
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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Artist Ethic Morale Work
Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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Brother Distant Future Heart
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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Artist Nothing Subject Two
Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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Fire Love Romantic
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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Eye Light Recognition Sleep
Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)
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Color Soul Vowel
I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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Always Consider Myself Writer

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