Patti Smith
Patti Smith
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPunk Singer
Date of Birth30 December 1946
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
people fool
People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
artist what-matters want
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.
inspirational life art
Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.
If I feel any marginalisation, it's because the things that concern me aren't so important to other people.
apologize contact customer imagine respond
If he did contact our customer service, and we didn't respond appropriately, then we apologize for that. I can't imagine how frustrating this must have been for him.
beneath mortal taking
If I'm taking a picture of Brancusi's grave, I know that there's something of him, of his mortal remains, beneath my feet, and there's something beautiful about that.
bookstore factory family hardest picking since work
I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. And of course, being a mother and homemaker, the hardest work of all.
anyone art cape class dogs except museum pumps saw sunglasses white
I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I saw Edie Sedgewick once at the Art Museum in Philly. She had these black leotards and little black pumps and this big ermine cape and all these white dogs and black sunglasses and black eyes. She was classy!
cult high paparazzi reserved
The cult of celebrity in the '60s and '70s was really more reserved for movie stars or high socialites. Paparazzi didn't care about Janis Joplin.