Kiki Smith

It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively…

— 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…

— 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…

— Kiki Smith

I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear,…

— 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,…

— Kiki Smith

You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling…

— 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…

— 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…

— Kiki Smith

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

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

Sometimes your personal life is much more significant. Sometimes your work life is more significant. Friends and family, or sometimes the general…

— Kiki Smith

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

— Kiki Smith

The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.

— Kiki Smith

Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways.

— Kiki Smith

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of…

— Kiki Smith

I love flying buttresses!

— Kiki Smith

Stained glass enabled the modern world.

— Kiki Smith

Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.

— Kiki Smith

I have to make about a million proofs of everything. I don’t know, it’s just a repetition, like a meditation. You come…

— Kiki Smith

I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.

— Kiki Smith

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