I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear,… — 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… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think,… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too. — 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