(1/3) PattiSmith's work has inspired and electrified people over the course of her 50-year career. With a new photo book and an art exhibit in Paris, the artist and writer reflects on her career and what drives her forward. Read her cover story 👉
Smith ended up calling one of her sisters, who laughed at her for a long time. As I listen to Smith tell this story, I’m not convinced she even knows now what went wrong. But that’s not the point of her story. The point is that the more open one is to life, the more everything can feel like an enriching creative adventure. “I’m appreciative of everyone’s skills. … I’m so grateful for someone who can make a really good cup of coffee. … I’m grateful for the things that people excel in.
Smith is gracious and patient in these encounters. She asks questions, poses for many selfies. At the opening-night event for her exhibit, her admirers include many other famous and talented artists, like the actress Charlotte Rampling, whom Smith embraces with such warmth and mutual admiration. I ask Rampling how the two met, and she can’t remember. They know only that they’d felt drawn to each other once and that the magnetic pull remains every time they see each other.
Smith is still thinking of the five young women we met at the Pompidou by the Joan Mitchell painting. She wonders if they might be the kind of women who will pick up this magazine and read this profile of her, and so she wants to have something of value to say to them. “I look at them and think, ‘What is the path ahead of them? What are they going to have to deal with?’ ” One certainty Smith has is that these young women will face pain and loss. “We feel pain; we have to ride it,” she says.
Smith will turn 76 at the end of December. She tells me she sees her life now like a book that keeps expanding: The longer it is, the more it contains. More life means more chances to make things.
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