Kiki Smith Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• 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

  Art, Thinking, Creating

• 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

  Art, Feelings, Energy

  Siri Engberg, Kiki Smith, Linda Nochlin, Walker Art Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2005). “Kiki Smith: a gathering, 1980-2005”

• I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

  Kiki Smith

  Beautiful, Art, Thinking

  Siri Engberg, Kiki Smith, Linda Nochlin, Walker Art Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2005). “Kiki Smith: a gathering, 1980-2005”

• I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

  Kiki Smith

  Art, Thinking, Listening

• I certainly am one of those people who is incredibly privileged to have an art career, which happened out of luck. Then luck kept happening. Besides that, things just move along in their own weird way.

  Kiki Smith

  Art, Moving, Careers

  Source: crushfanzine.com

• 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

  Mother, Art, Father

• Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer.

  Kiki Smith

  Art, Inspiration, Museums

• 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

  Spiritual, Art, Believe

  "Learning by Looking - Witches, Catholicism, and Buddhist Art". Art21 Interview, art21.org.

• When studio art started being seen as important, I joined Colab, and then I became very involved.

  Kiki Smith

  Art, Important, Studios

  Source: crushfanzine.com

• The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.

  Kiki Smith

  Art, People, Expanding

  Source: crushfanzine.com

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

  Kiki Smith

  Art, Energy, Happens

• Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

  Kiki Smith

  Art, Reflection, Impact

  Source: crushfanzine.com

• 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

  Art, Thinking, Bees

• It's just disgusting that in this society, the majority of students in art school are women, but they amount to less than 30% of what is shown in museums. That has not changed radically.

  Kiki Smith

  Art, School, Museums

  Source: crushfanzine.com

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