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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.
Kiki Smith
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Kiki Smith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 18
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Nürnberg
Ḳiḳi Smit
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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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Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.
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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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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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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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The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.
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My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.
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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 think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.
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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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It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life.
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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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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.
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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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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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Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.
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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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Stained glass enabled the modern world.
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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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The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.
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