870 Quotes by Patti Smith

I have bigger concerns than what pop stars are doing. I'm more concerned about our environment, what industrialists are doing to it.

I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things.

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.

One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal.

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.

It's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God.

I don't think the average American understands what patriotism truthfully is. That's why when I attack our country or attack the government, it's sometimes looked at as unpatriotic. It's not.

I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new.