The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I like my time on earth. And no matter what kind of cards I've been dealt, I'm happy to be there. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn't come… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“For a time Robert protected me, then was dependent on me, and then possessive of me. His transformation was the rose of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm estranged from social media and I don't really deal with it. I tried to work on a website and it took… — 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
I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Social media could be very strong in terms of bringing people together but it also takes up so much of people's time… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it." - reference to Andy Warhol” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“These things were in my mind from the first moment I entered the vocal booth. The gratitude I had for rock and… — 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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