Patti Smith Quotes & Sayings (Page 12)

“People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.”

“I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.”

“When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them.”

“When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.”

“A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.”

“C'mon, I mean who didn't listen to 'The Who' in the 60s?”

“I like gettin' old.”

“Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.”

“There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.”

“What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.”