Kiki Smith Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• 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

  Animal, Hair, Drawing

• 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. For me, it came out of doing things about animals.

  Kiki Smith

  Wall, Character, Thinking

  Source: crushfanzine.com

• I had stopped making figures, and then I began making images of animals in nature, which was a way to introduce the figure.

  Kiki Smith

  Animal, Way, Introducing

  Source: crushfanzine.com

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