"In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth." ― Patti Smith Topic(s): Art More From Patti Smith "The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication." "From very early on in my childhood – four, five years old – I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected – I was very tall and skinny, and I didn’t look like anybody else, I didn’t even look like any member of my family." "We tried not to age, but time had its rage." More In Art "Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."― John Updike "Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor."― Henry A. Kissinger "My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing."― Renee Fleming