American - Musician | December 30, 1946 -
Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.
Patti Smith
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In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
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Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca.
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My style says, 'Look at me, don't look at me.'
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I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.
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Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
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I just do my work, and I work every day, and my ambition is just to do something better than I last did.
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Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.
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Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.
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The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.
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Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
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