In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. — 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
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
Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying… — 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 think its very important that we enjoy our life, that we get everything we can out of it. — 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
“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
The hand above turns those leaves of loves, all in all a timeless view. Each dream of life flung from paradise everlasting,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
It's Steven's [Sebring] view of what he saw in traveling and working with me. But on another scale, I think the film… — 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
For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should… — 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
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
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 truth is, no matter how modest Steven [Sebring] is, he was obsessed with the outcome of the film [Dream of Life].… — 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 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
“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
The film [Dream of Life], in the end, is life-affirming, and I think it's always useful for people to be reminded that… — 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 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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