Inspirational Quotes by Patti Smith

Words are just rules and regulations to me.

— Patti Smith

Your soul was like a network of spittle.

— Patti Smith

Will you pretend you're my boyfriend?

— Patti Smith

Grief isn't all tears.

— Patti Smith

Pissing in a river, watching it rise.

— Patti Smith

You don't want to OD on improvisation.

— Patti Smith

Ultimately, I want to make everyone horny.

— Patti Smith

We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink.

— Patti Smith

You can't make a mistake when you improvise.

— Patti Smith

Toyland, toyland . . . once you pass its portals you may never return again.

— Patti Smith

These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.

— Patti Smith

One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.

— Patti Smith

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

— Patti Smith

A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because…

— Patti Smith

I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.

— Patti Smith

New York is the thing that seduced me. New York is the thing that formed me. New York is the thing that…

— Patti Smith

“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. For nothing is more…

— Patti Smith