The best thing is to motivate people to do their own work. I'm not opposed to making money. But I started to play rock 'n' roll to motivate others, to shake things up, wake people up and to let other skinny, pimply marginalized weirdos know they're not alone.
Patti SmithRobert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.
Patti SmithThere are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
Patti Smith