870 Quotes by Patti Smith

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors.

I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.

'M Train' is as close to knowing what I'm like as anything. I don't know exactly what the book is about. All and nothing, I suppose.

You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.

I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are.

I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates ...

I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, "Where's my car?"

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.