In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing. — 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 nature of characters - whether they are historical or coming from literature or documentation. Those are the references we have to people, besides your family, and the intimacy of portraiture is in the specifics of individuals.… — 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 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
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