Patti Smith Quotes

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.

To be an artist is to believe in life.

At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.

Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.

Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Creating means living.

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the link between magic and writing. I think that they are profoundly connected.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

Life and art are not two different things.