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I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one
– Patti Smith

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  1. I wanted to cry so bad, but my tears are inside. A blindfold keeps them there. I can’t see today. Patti, I don’t know anything. – Patti Smith
  2. I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it. – Patti Smith
  3. How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art. – Francis A Schaeffer
  4. You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there. – Maria Callas
  5. For those who want to believe, no proof is ever required. For those who refuse to believe, no proof is ever enough. – Sherrilyn Kenyon
  6. The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. – Ashley Montagu
  7. The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  8. Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don’t abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the – Patti Smith
  9. Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don’t abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book. – Patti Smith
  10. He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin. – Patti Smith
  11. He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world. – Patti Smith
  12. I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself. – Patti Smith
  13. I had one of those headaches. It kept pounding and got into that crazy realm where the guillotine seems like a good idea. – Patti Smith
  14. It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171). – Patti Smith
  15. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. – Patti Smith
  16. All I needed for the mind was to be led to new stations. All I needed for the heart was to visit a place of greater storms. – Patti Smith
  17. I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works. – Patti Smith
  18. Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all. – Patti Smith
  19. I don’t ???? much with the past but I ???? plenty with the future. – Patti Smith
  20. Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer. – Patti Smith
  21. Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself. – Patti Smith
  22. He recognizes voices within silence. (of Max Sebald) – Patti Smith
  23. I paced while he slept, ricocheting like a dove skidding the lonely confines of a Joseph Cornell box. – Patti Smith
  24. There’s always new stuff, that’s for sure. – Patti Smith
  25. When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens. – Madeleine LEngle
  26. The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. – Julia Cameron
  27. But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That’s closer to it. The artistic life without the talent. – Philip K
  28. … an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist. – Chaim Potok
  29. The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market. – Iimani David
  30. The scary part of being an artist is knowing that what makes you a better artist can also kill you. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  31. In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, being an artist is an excuse for a form of behavior. – William Faulkner
  32. You know what? I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m gonna make art, arty art art! – Andy Biersack
  33. I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
  34. Skathis might have been an artist, but he’d been a vile one. Strange the dreamer was an artist, too, and he was the antidote to vile. – Laini Taylor
  35. A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  36. An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  37. Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent. – Eric Michael Leventhal
  38. Artist must have an all-or-nothing attitide. Otherwise they will bite his head off and there will be no artist. – Kata Mlek
  39. Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist. – Jean Genet
  40. The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist. – Eric Gill

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