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
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 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
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 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
“He wasn't certain whether he was a good or bad person. Whether he was altruistic. Whether he was demonic. But he was… — 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
I have disciplined myself when I'm working. When I discovered art, I realized that one could keep that search going within creation.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Not everything we do as artists has deep intent. If we push barriers, that's great, but sometimes we just do our work.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is… — 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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