Fan Club, Small Yet Big

Luc Sante on Patti Smith ("The Mother Courage Of Rock"):

Smith was the president of a fan club that had just one member but a hundred idols: Rimbaud, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Jackson Pollock, Isabelle Eberhardt, Brian Jones, Georgia O'Keeffe, William Burroughs, Renée Falconetti (Joan of Arc in Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 movie), not to mention Johnny Carson.