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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.
Kiki Smith
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Kiki Smith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 18
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I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.
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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 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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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 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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I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.
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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 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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The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.
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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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Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.
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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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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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Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.
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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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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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Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.
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Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
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