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Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

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Kiki Smith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 18
Artist
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Sculptor
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Stained glass enabled the modern world.
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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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I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.
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Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.
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When you get older, you're running out of time. You care more about trying to stay on the planet a little longer, so you can learn how to draw better!
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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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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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It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life.
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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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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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The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.
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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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The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.
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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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Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.
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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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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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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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