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Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.
Kiki Smith Quotes: Making art is a lot
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 like things that are labor-intensive : you make a little thing and another little thing and another little thing, and eventually you see a possibility.
Kiki Smith Quotes: I like that feeling when
Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.
Kiki Smith Quotes: Prior to my father's death,
I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.
Kiki Smith Quotes: I think making things beautiful
I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.
Kiki Smith Quotes: I didn't start to be
If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow.
Kiki Smith Quotes: If you stick to your
Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative ... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions.
Kiki Smith Quotes: Some people think or expect
I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.
Kiki Smith Quotes: I think that sense of
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 repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.
Kiki Smith Quotes: Prints mimic what we are
My iPhone has changed my life - I spend hours taking photos of the sidewalk as I walk down the street. I like the casualness, that it's low-resolution.
Kiki Smith Quotes: My iPhone has changed my
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 and then you leave it, and then you come back again and you leave it, and each time it changes. And sometimes you have to wait for new information inside yourself to be able to finish something, to find out how it should go.
Kiki Smith Quotes: I have to make about
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.
Kiki Smith Quotes: It's one of my loose
The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.
Kiki Smith Quotes: The hardest thing is remembering
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 Quotes: My work life makes much
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 listening to music, other than my mother's singing.
Kiki Smith Quotes: In our family, there wasn't
The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.
Kiki Smith Quotes: The point isn't to know
I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day.
Kiki Smith Quotes: I always say I'm Catholic
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 get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.
Kiki Smith Quotes: I like Betsy Ross as
I really love printmaking. It's like a mystery and you're trying to figure out how to rein it in.
Kiki Smith Quotes: I really love printmaking. It's
You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision.
Kiki Smith Quotes: You can have fantasies about
Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.
Kiki Smith Quotes: Our culture seems to believe
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 animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.
Kiki Smith Quotes: I got into animals by
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 to your family.
Kiki Smith Quotes: Many people don't have relationships
I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.
Kiki Smith Quotes: I think a lot of
Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer.
Kiki Smith Quotes: Source of inspiration. The MAK
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