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Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
Kiki Smith
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Kiki Smith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 18
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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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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 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.
Kiki Smith
When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.
Kiki Smith
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.
Kiki Smith
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.
Kiki Smith
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.
Kiki Smith
Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.
Kiki Smith
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 fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life.
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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.
Kiki Smith
Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.
Kiki Smith
I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.
Kiki Smith
Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.
Kiki Smith
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.
Kiki Smith
The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.
Kiki Smith
Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.
Kiki Smith
Stained glass enabled the modern world.
Kiki Smith
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.
Kiki Smith
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.
Kiki Smith
