Art Quote by Kiki Smith Download Open image “Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.” — Kiki Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Following Giving Space
“Artists create holes and openings in the universe. They sidestep the conventional, conditional, predictable and habitual, and they illuminate and connect different worlds. They’re… — Mary Button Durell Copy Share Image
Back in the day, artists could be mysterious. Now, people want to know and hear everything about you. They want to see and feel… — Kandi Burruss Copy Share Image
I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window. — Susan Rothenberg Copy Share Image
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide. — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
There's certain artists that are meant to have certain paths and go the way of the corporate world. And then there are artists who… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
As an artist, you have an opportunity to get in and move things around in people. — Andy Grammer Copy Share Image
Artists are those people who sit at the intersection between the known and unknown, the rational and irrational, coming to terms with some of… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“Our first job as artists, then, is to venture out, away from what we think we know in search of the new and unexplored.… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business. — Sara Genn 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
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 nature of characters - whether they are historical or coming from literature or documentation. Those are the references we have to people, besides your family, and the intimacy of portraiture is in the specifics of individuals.… — 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 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
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 Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
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