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Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.
Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
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Human Rights Activist
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Chicago
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Patricia Lee Smith
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Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
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I wasn't taking drugs or drinking. I was working and working and working. But I wasn't writing anything.
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All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.
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It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.
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The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.
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Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.
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If someone didn't want to be filmed, or my children said, Don't film me anymore, [Steven Sebring] didn't try to sneak a shot or cajole them he just respected their wishes.
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I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.
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I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are.
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We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please.
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I have disciplined myself when I'm working. When I discovered art, I realized that one could keep that search going within creation. But I also realize that in order to create the art, you have to stay, you can't go too far.
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I'm not really a nostalgic person.
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I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.
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Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.
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I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.
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Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.
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It's not that I have compromised or anything, but it's always been important to me to take good care of myself and be a good example. I'm not much a role model in terms of hair care, though.
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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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