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Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.
Kiki Smith
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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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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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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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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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My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.
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Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.
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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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My iPhone has changed my life - I spend hours taking photos of the sidewalk as I walk down the street. I like the casualness, that it's low-resolution.
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Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.
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I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.
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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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Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.
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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 like that feeling when you’re making art, that you’re taking the energy out of your body and putting it into a physical object. I like things that are labor-intensive : you make a little thing and another little thing and another little thing, and eventually you see a possibility.
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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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