Patti Smith

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional. ↗

— Patti Smith

#inspirational

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words. ↗

— Patti Smith

#inspirational #words #freedom

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

#inspiration #janis-joplin #jim-morrison #music #originality

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

#patti-smith #dreams

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

#art

We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world. ↗

— Patti Smith

#faith #friendship #love #courage

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

#art

I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust. ↗

— Patti Smith

#love

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer. ↗

— Patti Smith

#magic #magician #priest #religion #religion

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

#beauty