An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God. The guy who built the Tower of Babel was the first artist. If I had to check out where I was in other centuries, I was his old lady. If I wasn't the guy, I was his chick. He knew that there was more and God got jealous. Even gods get uptight. Women make gods uptight. Everyone thinks of God as a man -- you can't help it -- Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man. But a man comes once. A woman never stops coming.
Patti SmithGot to lose control before you take control.
Patti SmithRemember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.
Patti SmithFor a time Robert protected me, then was dependent on me, and then possessive of me. His transformation was the rose of Genet, and he was pierced deeply by his blooming.
Patti SmithI have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates ...
Patti SmithHe contained, even at an early age, a stirring and the desire to stir.
Patti SmithI thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.
Patti SmithEverything distracted me, but most of all myself.
Patti SmithI immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ...
Patti SmithBut 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.
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