Kiki Smith Quotes

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  • Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer.

  • 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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  • It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life.

    Fun   Way  
  • 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.

  • Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.

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  • The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.

    Art   People   Expanding  
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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.

    Animal   Hair   Drawing  
  • If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow.

  • I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

  • 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.

    Grace   Kitchen   Vision  
  • The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.

  • As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.

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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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  • You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling and the nature of characters - whether they are historical or coming from literature or documentation. Those are the references we have to people, besides your family, and the intimacy of portraiture is in the specifics of individuals. For me, it came out of doing things about animals.

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  • Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

    Art   Reflection   Impact  
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  • I've been very lucky being in New York. While there are many things that have impacted my life, I have been able to stay here and do my own work.

    New York   Able   Lucky  
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  • I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.

    Siri Engberg, Kiki Smith, Linda Nochlin, Walker Art Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2005). “Kiki Smith: a gathering, 1980-2005”
  • 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.

    Age   Different   Driven  
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  • I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist.

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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.

    Spiritual   Art   Believe  
    "Learning by Looking - Witches, Catholicism, and Buddhist Art". Art21 Interview, art21.org.
  • 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 have to make about a million proofs of everything. I don’t know, it’s just a repetition, like a meditation. You come back to something and then you leave it, and then you come back again and you leave it, and each time it changes. And sometimes you have to wait for new information inside yourself to be able to finish something, to find out how it should go.

  • I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.

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  • Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

    Artist   Space   Giving  
  • My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.

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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.

    Want   Way   Complicated  
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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.

    Art   Thinking   Creating  
  • Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.

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  • It's just disgusting that in this society, the majority of students in art school are women, but they amount to less than 30% of what is shown in museums. That has not changed radically.

    Art   School   Museums  
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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.

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