He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe) Patti Smith More Quotes by Patti Smith More Quotes From Patti Smith We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves. Patti Smith shedskins Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own spirit, your heart, your mind. Feel the joy of being alive and free. Patti Smith phonescellsheart I daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone because I want to hear my mind. I think that those periods of small solitude that we are really losing are so important. Patti Smith phonesideasthinking 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. Patti Smith responsibilitymotherexercise Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake. Patti Smith futurearrowsdark Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents. Patti Smith fatedesignadventure You can't make a mistake when you improvise. Patti Smith drummingimprovisationmistake Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire. Patti Smith letting-gofuninspirational To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it. Patti Smith what-mattersartistwant For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love. Patti Smith seabelievechildren People need space to air out their thoughts, to have a sense of themselves - unfettered by anything. Patti Smith spaceairpeople If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we are, without the influence or intervention of others, we will prevail. Patti Smith flamesalivefeelings Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person. Patti Smith griefgivingpeople Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional. Patti Smith interactionpeople Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words. Patti Smith wrong-wordsfreedomwriting Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat. Patti Smith neatlinesworld 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. Patti Smith answersdoetime Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work. Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency. Life is like a roller coaster ride, it is never going to be perfect. It is going to have perfect moments and rough spots, but it’s all worth it. Patti Smith successfulnamesperfect To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom. Patti Smith be-who-you-arerockssuccessful The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation. Patti Smith communicationartistresponsibility
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