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Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.
Kiki Smith
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Kiki Smith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 18
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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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Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
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Stained glass enabled the modern world.
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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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The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing 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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I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.
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Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.
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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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Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.
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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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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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Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.
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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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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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