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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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Kiki Smith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 18
Artist
Illustrator
Installation Artist
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Performance Artist
Photographer
Printmaker
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Nürnberg
Ḳiḳi Smit
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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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The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.
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Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.
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Stained glass enabled the modern world.
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Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.
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I had stopped making figures, and then I began making images of animals in nature, which was a way to introduce the figure.
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Sometimes your personal life is much more significant. Sometimes your work life is more significant. Friends and family, or sometimes the general population, take precedence.
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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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Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.
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I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.
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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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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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Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.
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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 point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.
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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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I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!
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