The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the… — 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
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
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 had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one. — 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
I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds… — 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
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
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
“...the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and… — 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
“I drew no line between life and art. I was the same on- as offstage.” — 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 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
“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
I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection — 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
“But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revalation that human beings create art, that to be an artist… — 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
I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to… — 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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