"Just Kids" Quotes
"Just Kids" is a memoir by Patti Smith recounting her deep friendship and artistic journey with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in New York City during the late 1960s and 1970s.
nonfiction | 304 pages | Published in 2010
Quotes
I was asleep when he died. I had called the hospital to say I was coming, but it was too late.
We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.
In my inexperienced mind, I imagined that as long as I kept moving forward, travel would eventually deliver me to my destination.
Nothing is finished until you see it.
The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work he cannot stay in this ecstatic state.
I believed in the goodness of the world, even as all around me, I saw the undeniable evidence of man’s inhumanity to man.
It’s not so easy writing about nothing.
We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.
I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it.
When you hit a wall, just kick it in.





