Latest Kiki Smith Quotes from Interviews

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• The miracle of being able to pay attention to other people in your life, and the miracle of being in time, and to continue being in time.

  Kiki Smith

  People, Miracle, Attention

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• My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.

  Kiki Smith

  Simple, Support Systems, People

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• In drawing, I often think of things as flying buttresses.

  Kiki Smith

  Thinking, Drawing, Flying

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• I'm reminded of the arm, and the body, and the appendage.

  Kiki Smith

  Body, Arms

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• Stained glass enabled the modern world.

  Kiki Smith

  Glasses, World, Modern

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• I love flying buttresses!

  Kiki Smith

  Flying

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• Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.

  Kiki Smith

  Tolerate, Lighters

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• Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.

  Kiki Smith

  Life Changing, Guarantees

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• We as beings are very contradictory, complicated creatures that work in our best interest and against our best interest. In a certain way, I want my work to have all that messiness.

  Kiki Smith

  Want, Way, Complicated

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• I've been very lucky being in New York. While there are many things that have impacted my life, I have been able to stay here and do my own work.

  Kiki Smith

  New York, Able, Lucky

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• Sometimes your personal life is much more significant. Sometimes your work life is more significant. Friends and family, or sometimes the general population, take precedence.

  Kiki Smith

  Family And Friends, Population, Life Is

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• Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.

  Kiki Smith

  Identity, Important, Significant

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• 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 can learn how to draw better!

  Kiki Smith

  Running, Trying, Littles

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• 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

• 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

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

  Kiki Smith

  Art, Reflection, Impact

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• I always thought it was a trap to fit into ideologies, and maybe that's a luxury position, but my work is a reflection of my being here. My being here is not a reflection of an idea.

  Kiki Smith

  Reflection, Ideas, Luxury

  Source: crushfanzine.com

• It is very different when you age. The things that are significant, or what drives you, or the physical experience of being driven, changes over time.

  Kiki Smith

  Age, Different, Driven

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• As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.

  Kiki Smith

  Life Changing, Artist, Needs

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• 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 trying to find a happy medium that I can make some sense of.

  Kiki Smith

  Moving, Trying, Sometimes

  Source: crushfanzine.com

• Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways.

  Kiki Smith

  Way, Life Is

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

  Kiki Smith

  Art, People, Expanding

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

  Kiki Smith

  Art, Important, Studios

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• I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist.

  Kiki Smith

  Artist, Media, Filmmaking

  Source: crushfanzine.com

• Now, it is much more difficult for young people coming to New York. But also when you're young, you have more time to interact with one another, to discover yourself with people of your generation.

  Kiki Smith

  New York, People, Over You

  Source: crushfanzine.com