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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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The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.
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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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I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!
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I like that feeling when you’re making art, that you’re taking the energy out of your body and putting it into a physical object. I like things that are labor-intensive : you make a little thing and another little thing and another little thing, and eventually you see a possibility.
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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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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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Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.
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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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When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.
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I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.
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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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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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Stained glass enabled the modern world.
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Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.
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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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Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.
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My iPhone has changed my life - I spend hours taking photos of the sidewalk as I walk down the street. I like the casualness, that it's low-resolution.
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It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life.
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