I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Later he would say that the Church led him to God, and LSD led him to universe. He also said that art… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Lets just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in… — 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
That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Technology is 50% of rock 'n' roll - the magic, the art, the performance. If you don't have good technicians and a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I never had aspirations to go into politics or medicine. I always wanted to be an artist of some sort. I wasn't… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the… — 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
As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
As much as I can, as much as I can afford, I keep ticket prices down. Rock 'n' roll was developed as… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
It's Steven's [Sebring] view of what he saw in traveling and working with me. But on another scale, I think the film… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I believe that we, that this planet, hasn't seen its Golden Age. Everybody says its finished ... art's finished, rock and roll… — 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
“Observing people taking in the work I had watched Robert create was an emotional experience. It had left our private world. It… — 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
“A writer or any artist can’t expect to be embraced by the people. I've done records where it seemed like no one… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I drew no line between life and art. I was the same on- as offstage.” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in… — 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 Image
Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“I clawed through a thick web of the culture’s consciousness that I hadn’t known existed.” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 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 and legs.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
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 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 like to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
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