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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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Kiki Smith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 18
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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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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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It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life.
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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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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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The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.
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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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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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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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Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.
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Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.
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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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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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