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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!
Kiki Smith
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Kiki Smith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 18
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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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Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.
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It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life.
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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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I had stopped making figures, and then I began making images of animals in nature, which was a way to introduce the figure.
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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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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 really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.
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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'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!
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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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I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.
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When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.
Kiki Smith
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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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 think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.
Kiki Smith
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.
Kiki Smith
My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.
Kiki Smith
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.
Kiki Smith
Stained glass enabled the modern world.
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