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Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

Kiki Smith

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Kiki Smith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 18
Artist
Illustrator
Installation Artist
Painter
Performance Artist
Photographer
Printmaker
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Nürnberg
Ḳiḳi Smit
Art
Happens
Something
Seeing
Making
Energy

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Stained glass enabled the modern world.
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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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Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.
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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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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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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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When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.
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