“It's fun to toy around with press stuff a little bit, because in many ways it's not a real world.” Quote by Joshua Homme
“That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to get to the core place where we started from.” SometimesArtistPoet Author:Patti Smith
“Unfortunately, when you're working in film, it's this huge machine, and you've got to get everyone right there, so you get kind of locked into things. I'm not sure where the artistry in film making is. It's usually that moment when you're on set and you're working with the actors. That's the time to play around, the moment of theater. And then you can shape things. But a lot of it is just managing stuff. It's upsetting because you get away from the core.” KindMomentsFilmUpsetNot SureGet AwayArtistry Author:Darren Aronofsky
“We have to believe, as creators - just like a doctor doing heart surgery has to believe that he can save that person's life. You have to believe that your pursuit is not just a noble pursuit, but a necessary and inborn pursuit to uncover something.” BelieveHeartSurgery Author:Patti Smith
“In any performance, you're on stage for two hours, and there's 40 seconds or maybe a whole five minutes where you feel like the whole universe is in place, and you've gone even beyond the universe that you know.” UniverseHours Author:Patti Smith
“As a child I was such an intense daydreamer; I could be so gone that I had to be smacked to come back. They were really worried that I had some kind of catatonia or something because I would go so far out. Because all I wanted to do was talk to god as a child.” KindChildrenIntenseWorried Author:Patti Smith
“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.” ArtRealizingCreationI Realized Author:Patti Smith
“John Coltrane, he talks to god. He starts playing his solo, he might play for 14 minutes. For 14 minutes, it seems like he's talking to god, but he always takes a hold of the melody.” MelodyColtrane Author:Patti Smith
“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.” PeopleArtistResponsibility Author:Patti Smith
“Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time.” LongSometimesFilmSorrowFrustration Author:Patti Smith
“I remember the few times that happened to me in writing, where you basically start writing and you look at the clock and six hours have gone by and you're, like, "Whoa! What the hell just happened?" And that piece ends up in the final product even though the final product is three years away. It doesn't get rewritten. It came out the right way. But that's happened to me so few times in my life.” WritingRememberHoursHellClock Author:Darren Aronofsky