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 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
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
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
I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think,… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I like that feeling when you’re making art, that you’re taking the energy out of your body and putting it into a… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding. — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too. — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved. — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to… — 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
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
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
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
It's just disgusting that in this society, the majority of students in art school are women, but they amount to less than… — 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 Image
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 Image
Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown. — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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