Kiki Smith Quotes

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• I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.
• One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.
• 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 some…
• It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.
• 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 in…
• The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.
• I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.
• I like that feeling when you’re making art, that you’re taking the energy out of your body and putting it into a physical object. I…
• I have to make about a million proofs of everything. I don’t know, it’s just a repetition, like a meditation. You come back to something…
• Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.
• I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you…
• Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
• I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day.
• I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.
• I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.
• As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because…
• I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of…
• 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…
• Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close…
• My iPhone has changed my life - I spend hours taking photos of the sidewalk as I walk down the street. I like the casualness,…

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