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It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life.
Kiki Smith
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Kiki Smith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 18
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Nürnberg
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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 really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.
Kiki Smith
Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.
Kiki Smith
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 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
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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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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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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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'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!
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Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.
Kiki Smith
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.
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
Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
Kiki Smith
The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.
Kiki Smith
I had stopped making figures, and then I began making images of animals in nature, which was a way to introduce the figure.
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
My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.
Kiki Smith
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
Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.
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