870 Quotes by Patti Smith

The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.

My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.

The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists, poets, and activists could come and unify and create different kinds of scenes. Not just fashion scenes, scenes that were politically active. Big cities are getting so high-end oriented, business corporate fashion, fashion not in an artistic sense but in a corporate sense. For me that edgy beauty of cities is lost, wherever you go.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.

We want to have people in place by the holiday season. We're making a considerable investment, not only in the facility but in the people staffing that facility.

My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.

When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.

My mother answers all my fan mail.