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. Patti Smith More Quotes by Patti Smith More Quotes From Patti Smith People have the power to redeem the work of fools. Patti Smith fool people I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but I had this tremendous hope all the time. I had this tremendous spirit that kept me going... I was a happy child, because I had this feeling that I was going to go beyond my body physical... I just knew it. Patti Smith smart children school Paths that cross will cross again Patti Smith crosses path I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself. Patti Smith christian years thinking Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive. Patti Smith inspirational life art No one expected me. Everything awaited me. Patti Smith expected I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust. Patti Smith understood space loneliness Got to lose control before you take control. Patti Smith take-control loses I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now. Patti Smith greatness flower age When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend. Patti Smith my-boyfriend bob teenager New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city. Patti Smith taken new-york struggle We were walking toward the fountain, the epicenter of activity, when an older couple stopped and openly observed us. Robert enjoyed being noticed, and he affectionately squeezed my hand. "oh, take their picture," said the woman to her bemused husband, "I think they're artists." "Oh, go on," he shrugged. "They're just kids. Patti Smith husband couple kids I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book. Patti Smith beautiful book world What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered. Patti Smith happens Acknowledge all man as fellow creation, but don't follow him. Patti Smith adages creation men That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to get to the core place where we started from. Patti Smith poet artist sometimes 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. Patti Smith government country thinking I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs. But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not. Patti Smith twelve years art Pissing in a river, watching it rise. Patti Smith egotism rivers I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes. Patti Smith clothes fashion world
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