# Patti Smith on Robert Mapplethorpe — Please Quote Me

> I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.

— Patti Smith, on Robert Mapplethorpe

Source: Just Kids (Patti Smith, Ecco/HarperCollins), 2010 (book)
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