Artist Quotes by Kiki Smith

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

— Kiki Smith

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

— Kiki Smith

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

— Kiki Smith

I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.

— Kiki Smith

Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

— Kiki Smith

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

— Kiki Smith

In drawing, I often think of things as flying buttresses.

— Kiki Smith

I certainly am one of those people who is incredibly privileged to have an art career, which happened out of luck. Then…

— Kiki Smith

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I…

— Kiki Smith

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

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

— Kiki Smith

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

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

— 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,…

— Kiki Smith

As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became…

— Kiki Smith

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