Patti Smith Quotes About Communication

Quotes about: Communication

• The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.

  Patti Smith

  Communication, Responsibility, Artist

• Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When I'm writing a song, I imagine performing it. I imagine giving it. It's a different aspect of communication. It's for the people.

  Patti Smith

  Song, Communication, Writing

• The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.

  Patti Smith

  Communication, Artist, Hollywood

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

• When I perform, I always opt for communication with God, and in pursuit of communicating with God, you can enter some very dangerous territory. I also have come to realize that total communication with God is physical death.

  Patti Smith

  Fall, Communication, Territory

  "Visions of Patti Smith". Interview with Charles M. Young, www.rollingstone.com. July 27, 1978.

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