Artistic process Quote by Patti Smith

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

As a citizen, hopefully I'm humanist. As an artist, I'm free.

— Patti Smith

Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.

— Patti Smith

“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

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

— Patti Smith

“I clawed through a thick web of the culture’s consciousness that I hadn’t known existed.”

— Patti Smith

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

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

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

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

— Patti Smith

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

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