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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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Kiki Smith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 18
Artist
Illustrator
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Printmaker
Sculptor
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Nürnberg
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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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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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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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My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.
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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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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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It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life.
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I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.
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Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
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Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.
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