“I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth”Patti Smith Just KidsSource: Just Kids
“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."(Acceptance speech,, November 17, 2010)”Patti Smith
“But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revalation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.”Patti Smith Just KidsSource: Just Kids
“I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation…”Patti Smith Just KidsSource: Just Kids
“We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn’t want to be without each other.”Patti Smith Just KidsSource: Just Kids
“I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.”Patti Smith Just KidsSource: Just Kids
“Nothing can be truly replicated. Not a love, not a jewel, not a single line.”Patti Smith M TrainSource: M Train
“I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.”Patti Smith
“So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.”Patti Smith Just KidsSource: Just Kids
“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”Patti Smith Just KidsSource: Just Kids
“What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.”Patti Smith Just KidsSource: Just Kids
“I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,that Joplin had the last drunken throat,that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.”Patti Smith
“Jesus diedFor somebody's sinsBut not mine.”Patti Smith Gloria: In Excelsis Deo, from Horses (1975) Lyrics
“We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.”Patti Smith Just KidsSource: Just Kids