I’m not really a nostalgic person.
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?
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I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late ’50s and early ’60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.
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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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Even as a child, I knew what I didn’t want. I didn’t want to wear red lipstick.
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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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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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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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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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Hail brother, the distant thunder is nothing but hearts beating as one.
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All I’ve ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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A good artist’s always got his hand in his zipper.
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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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You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
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Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.
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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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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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