Printmaking Quotes by Kiki Smith

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

I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.

— Kiki Smith

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

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

— Kiki Smith

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

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

Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

— Kiki Smith

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

— 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, so you…

— Kiki Smith

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

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

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