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Kiki Smith Quotes: "The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something."

The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.



Kiki Smith Quotes: "I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too."

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




Kiki Smith Quotes: "I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world."

I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.



Kiki Smith Quotes: "Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown."

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.




Kiki Smith Quotes: "Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened."

Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.



Kiki Smith Quotes: "Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something."

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



Kiki Smith Quotes: "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."

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: "One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives."

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.



Kiki Smith Quotes: "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."

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: "I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off."

I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off.



Kiki Smith Quotes: "I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in."

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 think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life."

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: "It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life."

It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life.



Kiki Smith Quotes: "Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life."

Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.



Kiki Smith Quotes: "Stained glass enabled the modern world."

Stained glass enabled the modern world.



Kiki Smith Quotes: "If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow."

If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow.



Kiki Smith Quotes: "I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some other lifetime."

I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some other lifetime.



Kiki Smith Quotes: "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."

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

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



Kiki Smith Quotes: "I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day."

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: "The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life."

The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.



Kiki Smith Quotes: "Life changes a lot. I guarantee you."

Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.



Kiki Smith Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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

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: "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."

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: "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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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: "When I was young, it was an exciting time to be in New York."

When I was young, it was an exciting time to be in New York.



Kiki Smith Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24."

I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.



Kiki Smith Quotes: "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."

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: "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."

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

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



Kiki Smith Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!"

I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!



Kiki Smith Quotes: "I had stopped making figures, and then I began making images of animals in nature, which was a way to introduce the figure."

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

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



Kiki Smith Quotes: "I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever."

I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.



Kiki Smith Quotes: "My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life."

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



Kiki Smith Quotes: "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."

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

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



Kiki Smith Quotes: "I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself."

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



Kiki Smith Quotes: "The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding."

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



Kiki Smith Quotes: "I'm reminded of the arm, and the body, and the appendage."

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



Kiki Smith Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "In drawing, I often think of things as flying buttresses."

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



Kiki Smith Quotes: "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!"

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

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