All Patti Smith Quotes
- I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book. All
- Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. Now… Air
- The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and… Artist
- I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds… Chair
- I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something. Knew
- I hated the soup and felt little for the can. Felt
- I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side… Artist
- 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. But… All
- We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared… Complexity
- Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed. Calmed
- We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children. Any
- We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world. Black
- It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171). Arabian
- I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind. Believe
- I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth Clearest
- Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of. Ahead
- In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in… Discarded
- In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And… Animating
- We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he was a good… Accept
- I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one. Artist
- What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered. Answered
- There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a Leica, the view… Arms
- I wish I could just project everything on the paper, Inspirational
- I don't think," he insisted. "I feel. Feel
- Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were… Aware