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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
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Kiki Smith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 18
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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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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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Stained glass enabled the modern world.
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I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.
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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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In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.
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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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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 changes a lot. I guarantee you.
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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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I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!
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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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Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.
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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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My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your 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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Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.
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Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
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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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The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.
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