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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.
Kiki Smith
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Kiki Smith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 18
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Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
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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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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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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 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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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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Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.
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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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Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.
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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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The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.
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It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life.
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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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Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.
Kiki Smith
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
When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.
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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.
Kiki Smith
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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I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.
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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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