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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.
Kiki Smith
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Kiki Smith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 18
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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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The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.
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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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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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Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.
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It is very different when you age. The things that are significant, or what drives you, or the physical experience of being driven, changes over time.
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In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.
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We as beings are very contradictory, complicated creatures that work in our best interest and against our best interest. In a certain way, I want my work to have all that messiness.
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I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.
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It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life.
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I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some other lifetime.
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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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I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.
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Stained glass enabled the modern world.
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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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The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.
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