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Kiki Smith Inspirational Quotes (36)

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I'm not moving from an ideological standpoint. Sometimes I'm trying to make my life better. Sometimes I'm trying to make my life worse! I'm trying to find a happy medium that I can make some sense of.
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The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.
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Now, it is much more difficult for young people coming to New York. But also when you're young, you have more time to interact with one another, to discover yourself with people of your generation.
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The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.
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Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
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My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.
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I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.
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It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively dilapidated, and one could live on a pretty low income. One could live well below the poverty line and not suffer immensely.
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It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.
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Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.
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When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.
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I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.
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