Just Kids Quotes

“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.”
― patti smith, Just Kids

“We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn’t want to be without each other.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“I was never going to become anything but myself, that i was of the clan of Peter Pan and we did not grow up”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“Querido Robert,

A menudo, cuando no puedo dormir, me pregunto si tú tampoco puedes. ¿Tienes dolor o te sientes solo? Tú me sacaste del período más oscuro de mi juventud, compartiendo conmigo el misterio sagrado de lo que es ser artista. Aprendí a ver a través de ti y jamás he compuesto un verso ni he dibujado una curva que no provenga del conocimiento que obtuve en nuestro precioso tiempo juntos. Tu trabajo, que emana de una fuente generosa, se remonta a la canción desnuda de tu juventud. En ese entonces hablabas de tomar la mano de Dios. Recuerda, a pesar de todo, que siempre has tomado esa mano, agárrala con fuerza, Robert, y no la sueltes.

La otra tarde, cuando te quedaste dormido sobre mi hombro, yo también me quedé dormida. Pero antes de hacerlo pensé -mientras miraba todas tus cosas y creaciones, y repasaba tus años de trabajo- que de todas tus obras, tú continúas siendo la más bella. La obra más bella de todas.

Patti”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“Kristus var en värdig man att göra uppror mot, för han var själv upproret personifierat.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“I have a lock of his hair, a handful of his ashes, a box of his letters, a goatskin tambourine. And in the folds of faded violet tissue a necklace, two violet plaques etched in Arabic, strung with black and silver threads, given to me by the boy who loved Michelangelo.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“Sentivo di essermi trasformata, toccata dalla rivelazione che l'arte è creata dagli esseri umani, che essere un artista voleva dire vedere ciò che gli altri non potevano vedere.
Non avevo prove di possedere la stoffa dell'artista, ma bramavo esserlo con tutta me stessa [...] Mi domandai se meritavo davvero di essere un'artista; non mi preoccupavo delle sofferenze che una vocazione avrebbe comportato, m avevo il terrore di non ricevere la chiamata.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“Robert morente, creava il silenzio. Io, destinata alla vita, prestai ascolto a un silenzio che avrebbe richiesto un'esistenza intera per trovare le parole.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“Life at the Chelsea was an open market, everyone with something of himself to sell.” (p.107) (..)the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard [gerente do hotel] in exchange for rent. The hotel is an energetic, desperate haven for scores of gifted hustling children from every rung of the ladder. Guitar bums and stoned-out beauties in Victorian dresses. Junkie poets, playwrights, broke down filmmakers, and French actors. Everybody passing through here is somebody, if nobody in the outside world.” (p.91). (…) The Chelsea was like a doll’s house in the Twilight Zone, with a hundred rooms, each a small universe.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“Life at the Chelsea was an open market, everyone with something of himself to sell. (..) the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The hotel is an energetic, desperate haven for scores of gifted hustling children from every rung of the ladder. Guitar bums and stoned-out beauties in Victorian dresses. Junkie poets, playwrights, broke down filmmakers, and French actors. Everybody passing through here is somebody, if nobody in the outside world (…) The Chelsea was like a doll’s house in the Twilight Zone, with a hundred rooms, each a small universe.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know”
― Patti Smith

“It is said that children do not distinguish between living and inanimate objects; I believe they do. A child imparts a doll or a tin soldier with magical life breath. The artist animates his work as the child his toys”
― Patti Smith