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Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.
Kiki Smith
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Kiki Smith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 18
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Illustrator
Installation Artist
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Nürnberg
Ḳiḳi Smit
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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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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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It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life.
Kiki Smith
I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.
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.
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When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.
Kiki Smith
Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.
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.
Kiki Smith
I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!
Kiki Smith
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.
Kiki Smith
The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.
Kiki Smith
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
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
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.
Kiki Smith
Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.
Kiki Smith
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.
Kiki Smith
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
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
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.
Kiki Smith
Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.
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