Patti Smith World Quotations

Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.

You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.

I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.

These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.

When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.

For I desired, as Youth does, to be taken by the hand and hurled into the world.