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I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.
Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God.
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An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
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Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.
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The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.
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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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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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Will you pretend you're my boyfriend?
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I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.
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I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.
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If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we are, without the influence or intervention of others, we will prevail.
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Talking to god and coming back because that's what we have to do. That's your responsibility as a director, as an artist, as a performer. Your responsibility is back again to your people.
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I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I was twelve years old when my mother took me inside and said, You can't be outside wrestling without a T-shirt on. It was a trauma.
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People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about.
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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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Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.
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Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.
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Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
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I like my time on earth. And no matter what kind of cards I've been dealt, I'm happy to be there.
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We never had any children, he said ruefully. Our work was our children.
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The truth is, no matter how modest Steven [Sebring] is, he was obsessed with the outcome of the film [Dream of Life]. Every single frame was important to him.
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