Patti Smith Quotes About Painting
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Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.
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I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms.
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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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I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying painting ran its course after the Renaissance. Punk is an idea. It's freedom. And it'll be around 200 years from now for the people who want it.
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The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.
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