I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
PATTI SMITHSo 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.
More Patti Smith Quotes
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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 what was the ultimate goal? To have one’s work caged in art’s great zoos – the Modern, the Met, the Louvre?
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Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?
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Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
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People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone’s vision, because in the end, that’s what you got: your clay in someone else’s hands.
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Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
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I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
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You can’t work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
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The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.
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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.
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Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?
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I’m okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I’ll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I’m in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.
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The film [Dream of Life] doesn’t hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.
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I started resenting how much art robs from life. I’d go to a party and I couldn’t enjoy myself, even sexually. All I could think was how I was going to reinvent the experience into a piece of art.
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I’ve always considered myself a writer.
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My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn’t come anymore, but I had his support.
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