“I drew no line between life and art. I was the same on- as offstage.” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it." - reference to Andy Warhol” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Everything here is a small offense and not of value as art or confession. It is not a whim. It is an… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I have disciplined myself when I'm working. When I discovered art, I realized that one could keep that search going within creation.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Not everything we do as artists has deep intent. If we push barriers, that's great, but sometimes we just do our work.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I started resenting how much art robs from life. I'd go to a party and I couldn't enjoy myself, even sexually. All… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Talking to god and coming back because that's what we have to do. That's your responsibility as a director, as an artist,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm old-fashioned. I think William Blake and people in the Renaissance people were multi. Look at da Vinci, he was involved in… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I escaped into daydreams as I did my piecework. I longed to enter the fraternity of the artist: the hunger, their manner… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't have an image of myself, when I'm walking down the street, like I'm a rock star or something. I'm a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Much has been said about Robert, and more will be added. Young men will adopt his gait. Young girls will wear white… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was… — Patti Smith Copy Share
Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar. — Patti Smith Copy Share
“Inside it he inscribed a few lines of poetry, portraying us as the gypsy and the fool, one creating silence; one listening closely to… — Patti Smith Copy Share
“I clawed through a thick web of the culture’s consciousness that I hadn’t known existed.” — Patti Smith Copy Share
Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide… — Patti Smith Copy Share
If I'm taking a picture of Brancusi's grave, I know that there's something of him, of his mortal remains, beneath my feet, and there's… — Patti Smith Copy Share
I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs.… — Patti Smith Copy Share
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. — Patti Smith Copy Share
New York is the thing that seduced me. New York is the thing that formed me. New York is the thing that deformed me.… — Patti Smith Copy Share
I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to… — Patti Smith Copy Share
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the… — Patti Smith Copy Share
I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble… — Patti Smith Copy Share
