Patti Smith Quotes About Arthur

Quotes about: Arthur

• When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.

  Patti Smith

  Teenager, My Boyfriend, Bob

  "The Private World of Patti Smith". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 30, 2015.

• All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars.

  Patti Smith

  Stars, Role Models, Roles

  "Patti Smith Remembers Life With Mapplethorpe". Interview with Deborah Amos, www.npr.org. January 15, 2010.

• Arthur Conan Doyle had to be Sherlock Holmes in order to envision how Sherlock Holmes would unravel a mystery. He had to be in Sherlock's situations. As a writer, you have to be of two minds.

  Patti Smith

  Order, Two, Mind

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the senses. What they forget was that he also advocated, sternly and austerely, that one must be able to go through all that - and then articulate it.

  Patti Smith

  People, Able, Forget

• Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.

  Patti Smith

  Dirty, Mean, Humanity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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