“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
“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. For nothing is more precious than the life force and may the love of that force guide you as you go.”Patti Smith Source: Early Work, 1970-1979
“Later he would say that the Church led him to God, and LSD led him to universe. He also said that art led him to the devil, and sex kept him with the devil.”Patti Smith Just KidsSource: Just Kids
“Patti, did art get us?'I looked away, not really wanting to think about it. 'I don't know, Robert. I don't know.'Perhaps it did, but no one could regret that. Only a fool would regret being had by art; or a saint.”Patti Smith Just KidsSource: Just Kids