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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
Seeing
Making
Energy
Art
Happens
Something

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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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My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.
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Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
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It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life.
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You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision.
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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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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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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 like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.
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I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.
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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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Stained glass enabled the modern world.
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Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.
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