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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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Kiki Smith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 18
Artist
Illustrator
Installation Artist
Painter
Performance Artist
Photographer
Printmaker
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Nürnberg
Ḳiḳi Smit
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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 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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Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.
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Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.
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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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I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!
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My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.
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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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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.
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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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Stained glass enabled the modern world.
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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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I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.
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