« All Artist Quotes · Patti Smith's Page
Artist Quotes by Patti Smith
- If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was younger, I felt…
- To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what…
- Lets just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.
- A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to,…
- My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond…
- An artist wears his work in place of wounds.
- An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
- An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
- Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
- I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.
- Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.
- I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an…
- No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
- The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
- What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
- Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they…
- 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,…
- 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…
- ...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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
- Much has been said about Robert, and more will be added. Young men will adopt his gait. Young girls will wear white dresses and mourn…
- We were walking toward the fountain, the epicenter of activity, when an older couple stopped and openly observed us. Robert enjoyed being noticed, and he…
More Ways to Read Artist Quotes by Patti Smith
More Artist Quotes
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
- I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu
- Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or… — Erykah Badu