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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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The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.
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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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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 think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.
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I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.
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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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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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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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When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.
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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 fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life.
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Stained glass enabled the modern world.
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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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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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I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!
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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 really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.
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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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The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.
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Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.
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