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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.
Kiki Smith
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Kiki Smith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 18
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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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It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life.
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Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
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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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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 of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.
Kiki Smith
Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.
Kiki Smith
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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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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The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.
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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 think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.
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Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.
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My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.
Kiki Smith
When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.
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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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I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.
Kiki Smith
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 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.
Kiki Smith
