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Patti Smith Quotes: When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.
         

When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.


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To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.



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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.



Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.



Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.



I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.



Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.



Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.



To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.





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Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.



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