My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life. — 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
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
Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown. — Kiki Smith Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power… — Kiki Smith Copy Share
I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about… — Kiki Smith Copy Share
Sometimes your personal life is much more significant. Sometimes your work life is more significant. Friends and family, or sometimes the general population, take… — Kiki Smith Copy Share
