870 Quotes by Patti Smith

After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take a picture and later a poem comes in my mind.

My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.

I had a penchant myself for doing several things at once. I wanted to draw, write, speak.

My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.

In the '60s, I used to love rock magazines; I'd cut out pictures of Bob Dylan and John Lennon.

An artist wears his work in place of wounds.

I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that.

Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.

I just think it will be a neat time.