Quotes by Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith

Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

Art

Impact

Reflection

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

Artist

Giving

Space

As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed – but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn’t know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.

Artist

Children

Fun

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.

Artist

Life Changing

Needs

I always say I’m Catholic – but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn’t say I’m a spiritual person, although I pray every day.

Catholic

Praying

Spiritual

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.

Ideas

Luxury

Reflection

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.

Art

Careers

Moving

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

Artist

I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.

Firsts

Interest

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.

Animal

Drawing

Hair

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Artist

Attention

Beautiful

Bees

Believe

Body

Care

Careers

Catholic

Character

Children

Collaboration

Complicated

Complicity

Creating

Culture

Determination

Different

Drawing

Driven

Energy

Exciting

Expanding

Family And Friends

Father

Feelings

Figures

Filmmaking

Firsts

Flying

Frightened

Fun

Giving

Glasses

Grace

Guarantees

Hair

Half

Happens

Hard Times

Hardest

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Quotes by Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith

Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

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

As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed – but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn’t know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.

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.

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 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 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.

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

I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever.

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.

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