Patti Smith quotes - page 2

Patti, did art get us?' I looked away, not really wanting to think about it. 'I don't know, Robert. I don't know.' Perhaps it did, but no one could regret that. Only a fool would regret being had by art; or a saint. (Patti Smith)
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.
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Look around you, all around you Riding on a copper wave Do you like the world around you? Are you ready to behave?
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She is a soldier. She will not be defeated.
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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.
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I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.
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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.
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No one expected me. Everything awaited me.
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Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.
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Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.
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I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth. (Patti Smith)
What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.
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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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Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?
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Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.
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We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.
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I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
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We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.
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First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.
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An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
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In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot. (Patti Smith)
When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.
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In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.
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Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.
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No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
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