Patti Smith Quotes

Nothing should be an issue when it comes to sexuality in the first place. Music is the one artform where people feel comfortable coming out.

I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.

Sexuality is such a taboo thing. I think it should be more out in the open, especially with young women. I think it's okay for them to explore their sexuality, as long as they own it and it's portrayed in the right way.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

I've talked about sex a great deal in my music for a great while now. I feel very comfortable with it.

Latin women are very comfortable with their bodies and their sexuality. We aren't afraid to show that off a little bit more.

I just feel my sexuality is private. I'm very shy about being sexy. That part of me has been so closed to the public eye. I've sold millions of records with my clothes on.

Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.

I think people are 'just creative,' and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.

When I completely submerge my sensuality or my sexuality, I'm not very interesting.

What I notice a lot about millennials is that they have agency over their sexuality.

I think it's a little bit taboo to have a coming-of-age story where a girl explores her sexuality. That just doesn't happen a lot.

There's nothing wrong with showing sexuality. If you have that inside, it's just an expression of who you are. If you want to share that with people, that's amazing. I love that.

I don't understand how people live without creating.

I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a painting that can talk. And it's pure play. I think every artist needs to stay in touch with the idea of playing. The artist should always be playing, always. All art is performance.

You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

I used to think masturbation was not really sex because it only involved me. That's a very limited view of human sexuality, and it isn't going to work for women.

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.

I think that I'm allowing girls to be really free with their sexuality.

I really love art and I always have in every single different form and I just hope that I'm able to give some art that will touch some people and help them to be more positive and stronger.