I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life. — 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
Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think its very important that we enjoy our life, that we get everything we can out of it. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The film [Dream of Life] is the way it is because it was the rhythm of my life, and also because the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. For nothing is more… — 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… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I didn't begin my life in 1975 with 'Horses.' I recorded 'Horses' in 1975, but was drawing in Paris in 1969. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I started going to Bible school really early in life. Being raised a Jehovah's Witness, I had to read the Bible over… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't have an image of myself, when I'm walking down the street, like I'm a rock star or something. I'm a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“He tried everything from science to voodoo, everything but prayer. That, at least, I could give him in abundance. I prayed ceaselessly… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Closure is an illusion, the winking of the eye of a storm. Nothing is completely resolved in life, nothing is perfect. The… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I studied the Bible seriously until I was young teenager. It was always part of our home education: talking about the Bible,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I was at one of the lowest points of my life when we started this film [Dream of Life], except, of course,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother… — 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
If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
You're not a rock 'n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I started resenting how much art robs from life. I'd go to a party and I couldn't enjoy myself, even sexually. All… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to write. I wanted to evolve.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star… — 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
![“The film [Dream of Life] is the way it is because it was the rhythm of my life, and also because the director and the editor are both gifted and both fine human beings.” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/75b/patti-smith-394_cinema_the-film-dream-of-life-is-the-way-it-is_838676.jpg)
![“The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, none of us are amateurs.” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3f3/patti-smith-394_cinema_the-film-dream-of-life-is-not-really-an_992436.jpg)
![“I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realise it was my mother who gave me the most valuable instructions. I didn't understand or accept it at the time. She taught me to read and to pray - two…” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7f7/patti-smith-394_accepting_i-always-thought-my-father-influenced-me_2402878.jpg)
![“I was at one of the lowest points of my life when we started this film [Dream of Life], except, of course, that I had two great children. But the film is not documenting a decline; it's documenting a rise up - first baby steps and then big steps up. The worst that could have ever happened to me…” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/788/patti-smith-394_ascent_i-was-at-one-of-the-lowest-points-of-my_2048809.jpg)
![“I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b38/patti-smith-394_affirming_i-think-the-film-dream-of-life-is-life-a_1630605.jpg)
![“The film [Dream of Life] looks at a time in my life.” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e5f/patti-smith-394_cinema_the-film-dream-of-life-looks-at-a-time-i_1404149.jpg)
![“I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film [Dream of Life]; it gives the film a certain elegance.” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/af3/patti-smith-394_aesthetic_i-think-that-there-is-an-air-of-experien_459029.jpg)
![“Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.” quote by Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c73/patti-smith-394_cursing_sometimes-people-seem-to-think-i-came-ou_28268.jpg)
