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The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.
Kiki Smith
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Kiki Smith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 18
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Illustrator
Installation Artist
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Sculptor
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Nürnberg
Ḳiḳi Smit
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Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
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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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Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.
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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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Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.
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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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Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.
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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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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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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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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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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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