Life isn’t some vertical or horizontal line — you have your own interior world, and it’s not neat.
PATTI SMITHIn 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?
More Patti Smith Quotes
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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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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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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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I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
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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 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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One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
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I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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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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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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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 started resenting how much art robs from life. I’d go to a party and I couldn’t enjoy myself, even sexually. All I could think was how I was going to reinvent the experience into a piece of art.
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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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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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