“ He never seemed to question his artistic drives, and by his example, I understood that what matters is the work: the string of words propelled by God becoming a poem, the weave of color and graphite scrawled upon the sheet that magnifies His emotion. To achieve within the work a perfect balance of faith and execution. From this state of mind comes a light, life-charged.
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— Patti Smith, Just Kids
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