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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
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Guitarist
Human Rights Activist
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Chicago
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Patricia Lee Smith
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People say the media is feeding the public's hunger for celebrity news, but that's the drug pusher's mentality. I don't think anybody would be pining for news about Angelina Jolie's babies if it weren't being given to them in the first place.
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I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.
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Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.
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My mother answers all my fan mail.
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All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.
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I wish I could just project everything on the paper.
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Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.
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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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Your soul was like a network of spittle.
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I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.
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I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
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Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.
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I'm not really a nostalgic person.
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My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.
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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 studied the Bible seriously until I was young teenager. It was always part of our home education: talking about the Bible, arguing about the Bible, interpreting it. So I don't connect prayer or scriptures with any particular religion so it's not a contradiction in my life.
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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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I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.
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I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
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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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