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Patti Smith Quotes

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What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant  (Patti Smith Quotes) An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch  (Patti Smith Quotes) Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man  (Patti Smith Quotes) I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife  (Patti Smith Quotes) I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story  (Patti Smith Quotes) If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer  (Patti Smith Quotes) Let's 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  (Patti Smith Quotes) People have the power To redeem the work of fools Upon the meek the graces shower It's decreed the people rule  (Patti Smith Quotes) 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 and then the look of the handwriting  (Patti Smith Quotes) Look around you, all around you Riding on a copper wave Do you like the world around you? Are you ready to behave?  (Patti Smith Quotes) Take me now baby here as I am pull me close, try and understand desire is hunger is the fire I breathe love is a banquet on which we feed  (Patti Smith Quotes) In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. For nothing is more precious than the life force and may the love of that force guide you as you go  (Patti Smith Quotes) 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 who had never been a stranger  (Patti Smith Quotes) I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book  (Patti Smith Quotes) 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 by side  (Patti Smith Quotes) Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book - there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book  (Patti Smith Quotes) I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return  (Patti Smith Quotes) My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination  (Patti Smith Quotes) I craved honesty, yet found dishonesty in myself. Why commit to art? For self realization, or for itself? It seemed indulgent to add to the glut unless one offered illumination  (Patti Smith Quotes) Everything here is a small offense and not of value as art or confession. It is not a whim. It is an attempt to peel another putrid skin  (Patti Smith Quotes) Everyone had something to offer and nobody appeared to have much money. Even the successful seemed to have just enough to live like extravagant bums  (Patti Smith Quotes) Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer  (Patti Smith Quotes) We promised that we'd never leave one another again, until we both knew we were ready to stand on our own. And this vow, through everything we were yet to go through, we kept  (Patti Smith Quotes) I knew one day I would stop and he would keep on going, but until then nothing could tear us apart  (Patti Smith Quotes) 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  (Patti Smith Quotes) Later he would say that the Church led him to God, and LSD led him to universe. He also said that art led him to the devil, and sex kept him with the devil  (Patti Smith Quotes) Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of  (Patti Smith Quotes) 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 the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer  (Patti Smith Quotes) 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 both aware of that, I know  (Patti Smith Quotes) Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply  (Patti Smith Quotes)
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