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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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!

I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.

I found acting tough; it takes a lot out of you if you have no technique.

I always enjoyed sport. I was a bit of a wild child, to be honest, and just loved running around.

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

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

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

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.

I love flying buttresses!

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

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.

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

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

I'm taking the chance, walking away, breaking the rules nobody here can tell me what to do.

Just because something awful happens to someone else, it doesn't mean the issues in your life should take any less importance.

It's like she has some sort of captivating fire in her eyes. Sometimes she'll look at me and I feel like she's staring into my soul, reading everything I'm trying to keep hidden.

It hurts when you realize you aren’t as important to someone as you thought you were.Deep inside Where nothing’s fine I’ve lost my mind

Just always be honest about your feelings. If everyone did that then the world would be a much simpler place.