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
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
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
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
My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together,… — 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'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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
We were walking toward the fountain, the epicenter of activity, when an older couple stopped and openly observed us. Robert enjoyed being… — 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
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
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 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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