"We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves."
— Patti Smith
"Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own spirit, your heart, your mind. Feel the joy of being alive and free."
— Patti Smith
"You can't make a mistake when you improvise."
— Patti Smith
"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."
— Patti Smith
"Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words"
— Patti Smith
"Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive."
— Patti Smith
"Pissing in a river, watching it rise"
— Patti Smith