All Patti Smith Quotes
- One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk.… Desk
- People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of… All
- Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau,… All
- Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had… Change
- Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging… Arthur
- Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting… Drawing
- Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it.… All
- The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do… Artist
- Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life… All
- Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing… First Thing
- Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for… Applause
- What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to… Contributed
- When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books.… Book
- When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective… Burroughs
- Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First… Always Made
- ...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it… Adoration
- Writing is not some quiet, closet act. Act
- For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon… Beacon
- Angel looks down at him and says, “Oh, pretty boy, Can't you show me nothing but surrender? Angel
- When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I can't do this,"… Accessed
- Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words. Freedom
- So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone… Been
- Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview) Alphabet
- I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in something or I… Answering
- Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself? Heart