The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding. — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something. — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown. — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist. — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer. — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I certainly am one of those people who is incredibly privileged to have an art career, which happened out of luck. Then… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
When you get older, you're running out of time. You care more about trying to stay on the planet a little longer,… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively dilapidated, and… — Kiki Smith Copy Share
I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images… — Kiki Smith Copy Share
Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown. — Kiki Smith Copy Share
We as beings are very contradictory, complicated creatures that work in our best interest and against our best interest. In a certain way, I… — Kiki Smith Copy Share
I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive… — Kiki Smith Copy Share
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… — Kiki Smith Copy Share
You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling and the… — Kiki Smith Copy Share
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… — Kiki Smith Copy Share
My work life makes much less sense now than 20 years ago. It's Humpty-Dumpty-like in a way; I can't put the pieces back together. — Kiki Smith Copy Share
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… — Kiki Smith Copy Share
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… — Kiki Smith Copy Share
Sometimes your personal life is much more significant. Sometimes your work life is more significant. Friends and family, or sometimes the general population, take… — Kiki Smith Copy Share
