young man

"Life is the art, not the work."
- Attributed to Robert Mapplethorpe

routine

"5am to 8am is my writing time."
- Patti Smith

"When she was diagnosed as terminal, Jackie Kennedy took one last walk through Central Park."
- Patti Smith

soup

"I didn't feel for Warhol ... His work reflected a culture I wanted to avoid. I hated the soup and felt little for the can. I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it."
- Patti Smith, Just Kids, p.69

vision

" ... to be an artist was to see what others could not."
- Patti Smith, Just Kids, p. 11

I was alive today

"The day isn't complete unless I've created something."
- Patti Smith [born 1946]