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Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.
Patti Smith
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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
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Patricia Lee Smith
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Steven [Sebring] just fell in with my family life. He helped me wash the dishes and play with the kids. I could tell that he was a person who understood families.
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I'm a total failure at housewifery. I always have been, 'cause I daydream too much. If I start doing the dishes at one in the afternoon, I'll still be there at six in the evening.
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I always wear the same thing onstage.
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Words are just rules and regulations to me.
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It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.
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I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.
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When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.
Patti Smith
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.
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What I've always tried to do is to express the highest point of me, and rock 'n' roll is the first and the most open form created by our generation. The cool thing about it is that you get the power, you get the rhythm you can be taken over sexually, you can be taken over cerebrally it's great to look at - it's a package deal.
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I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.
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If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!
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We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.
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I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.
Patti Smith
Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time.
Patti Smith
I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.
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By the time I was 10 or 11, I was completely demoralized. I thought, I'm done. I'm never going to be a missionary, because my indiscretion column, whether it was little lies or stealing a Chunky bar, kept me from sainthood.
Patti Smith
Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?
Patti Smith
My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.
Patti Smith
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
I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God.
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