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Work Quotes by Patti Smith
- Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about…
- 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,…
- An artist wears his work in place of wounds.
- One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.
- The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule.
- Hey sister, you're just moving too fast, you're screwing up the quota.
- 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…
- I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.
- No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
- People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
- There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
- 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.
- The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't…
- I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.
- 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…
- 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…
- I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach