The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life. — 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… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better. — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways. — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
My iPhone has changed my life - I spend hours taking photos of the sidewalk as I walk down the street. I… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes your personal life is much more significant. Sometimes your work life is more significant. Friends and family, or sometimes the general… — 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… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky being in New York. While there are many things that have impacted my life, I have been able… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life. — 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
The miracle of being able to pay attention to other people in your life, and the miracle of being in time, and… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
One's self is always shifting in relationship to beauty and you always have to be able to incorporate yourself or your new… — 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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