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I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
Drawer
Guitarist
Human Rights Activist
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Photographer
Poet
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Chicago
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Patricia Lee Smith
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More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.
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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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I always know that everything I do is the best I could do.
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As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.
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Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.'
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One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal.
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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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It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)
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Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.
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A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.
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If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!
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With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with.
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I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.
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I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One couldn't imagine the cruelty that trans people had to face back then.
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I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
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I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.
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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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What will happen to us? I asked. There will always be us, he answered.
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When I perform, I always opt for communication with God, and in pursuit of communicating with God, you can enter some very dangerous territory. I also have come to realize that total communication with God is physical death.
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No one expected me. Everything awaited me.
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