I always hope that young people will think for themselves and also most importantly, understand that they should judge themselves on their… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Patti, did art get us?' I looked away, not really wanting to think about it. 'I don't know, Robert. I don't know.'… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
What helps me is watching other people negotiate loss. I think about how we dropped a bomb on people in Hiroshima and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
For me, personally, I think drugs are sacred and should be used for work. That's what I believe in. Drugs have a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
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… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The film [Dream of Life], in the end, is life-affirming, and I think it's always useful for people to be reminded that… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
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… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Ornette Coleman is a real musician. He takes all of the things he's thinking about in the world - which is a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I believe we all have a unique journey, whether its a journey of pure energy, if there's any intelligence within the journey.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
People say the media is feeding the public's hunger for celebrity news, but that's the drug pusher's mentality. I don't think anybody… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I really don't want somebody writing something positive about me if they don't believe in it. I'd rather somebody write something real… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor… — 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
![“The film [Dream of Life], in the end, is life-affirming, and I think it's always useful for people to be reminded that no matter how rough things get, no matter what kind of twists and turns our lives can take, we can keep going, we can create something new.” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d4c/patti-smith-394_affirming_the-film-dream-of-life-in-the-end-is-lif_1269017.jpg)
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