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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
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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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The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.
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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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I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!
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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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The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.
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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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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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When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.
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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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The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.
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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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Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.
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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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Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.
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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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Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.
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I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.
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Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.
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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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