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Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
Drawer
Guitarist
Human Rights Activist
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Photographer
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Chicago
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Patricia Lee Smith
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My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.
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I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.
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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
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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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I don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor.
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In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.
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I love my little overgrown yard. And my house is wonderful. It's everything that I need.
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I was like one of the boys in school who flap their legs frantically under the desk. I always had this weird feeling between my legs and I had no idea what it was. I didn't know girls masturbated. I never touched myself or anything.
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I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day.
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I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving.
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If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.
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I always wear the same thing onstage.
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I worked for Hillary [Clinton] when I was young - when she was running for the Senate. I was fundraising and things, I see all of these people as political in a way that isn't humanistic. I'm just watching and hoping that someone is going to distinguish himself or herself as comprehending what we need.
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Blessedness is within us all.
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Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.
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I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.
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Social media could be very strong in terms of bringing people together but it also takes up so much of people's time that I wonder if we've lost the ability to daydream.
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John Coltrane, he talks to god. He starts playing his solo, he might play for 14 minutes. For 14 minutes, it seems like he's talking to god, but he always takes a hold of the melody.
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Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
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I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.
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