Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt… — 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 physical object. I like things that are labor-intensive : you make a little thing and another little thing… — 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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