Life Quotes by Patti Smith

I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.

— Patti Smith

I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life.

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I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

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“I drew no line between life and art. I was the same on- as offstage.”

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Fate is like a secret friend that helps push you on into life.

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Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

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Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.

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I think its very important that we enjoy our life, that we get everything we can out of it.

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The film [Dream of Life] is the way it is because it was the rhythm of my life, and also because the…

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I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower…

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“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. For nothing is more…

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I didn't begin my life in 1975 with 'Horses.' I recorded 'Horses' in 1975, but was drawing in Paris in 1969.

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Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

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A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked…

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My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and…

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The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything…

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I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but…

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I have abandoned so many projects but in the '80s when I left public life to be married and have real children…

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Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have…

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I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and…

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I started going to Bible school really early in life. Being raised a Jehovah's Witness, I had to read the Bible over…

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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…

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“Closure is an illusion, the winking of the eye of a storm. Nothing is completely resolved in life, nothing is perfect. The…

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“He tried everything from science to voodoo, everything but prayer. That, at least, I could give him in abundance. I prayed ceaselessly…

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One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother…

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Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

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In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

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If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people.

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I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are.

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I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.

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My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.

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The film [Dream of Life] looks at a time in my life.

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“Why do we write? A chorus erupts. Because we cannot simply live.”

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We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

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Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then…

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The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.

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You're not a rock 'n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of…

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I started resenting how much art robs from life. I'd go to a party and I couldn't enjoy myself, even sexually. All…

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Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's…

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What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to write. I wanted to evolve.…

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