An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
- Patti Smith Quote

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
- Patti Smith Quote

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
- Patti Smith Quote

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
- Patti Smith Quote

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

First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.
- Patti Smith Quote

I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.
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I didn't really expect it to go anywhere.
- Patti Smith Quote

I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.
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I like gettin' old.
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I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.
- Patti Smith Quote

I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.
- Patti Smith Quote

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
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In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.
- Patti Smith Quote

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.
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Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.
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Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.
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My mother answers all my fan mail.
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My sunglasses are like my guitar.
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No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
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People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
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Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.
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The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
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Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
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When I was younger, I also dreamed of being an opera singer, simply because of Maria Callas.
- Patti Smith Quote