Kiki Smith Quotes

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Kiki Smith is an American contemporary artist known for her sculptures, paintings, and prints. Her work often explores themes such as life, death, religion, and gender, and is celebrated for its unique style and profound emotional expression.

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Famous Kiki Smith Quotes

“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.”

Thinking Art Opinion Benefits Models Sitting Asking Bees Sitting Around Doms Quilting Betsy Ross

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

Thinking Art Listening Art Is

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“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.”

World Art Mother Father Listening Singing Our Family Spokes Listening To Music

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“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.”

People Thinking Want Should Kind Art Forever Creating Narrative Contradiction Expecting Inherent Convenient Embodiment Famous Artist Contradicting

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

Art Inspiration Artist Effects Source Profound Museums Viewers Source Of Inspiration

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

Art Important Involved Studios

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

People Art Art Is Expanding

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“Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.”

Art Reflection Art Is Impact

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“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.”

Art School Changed Students Amount Majority Museums Disgusting This Society Art School

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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.”

People Way Art Moving Careers Happened Happenings Luck Privileged

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

Thinking Firsts Art Important Beautiful Ugly

Book:Kiki Smith: a gathering, 1980-2005

Source: Kiki Smith: a gathering, 1980-2005

“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.”

World Believe Wells Art Together Spiritual Gone Theory Manifestation Catholicism

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“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.”

Littles Art Feelings Body Energy Possibility Objects Labor Your Body Little Things

Book:Kiki Smith: a gathering, 1980-2005

Source: Kiki Smith: a gathering, 1980-2005

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

Ifs Art Happens Energy Seeing Art Is

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About the Author

Born: January 18, 1954
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 64

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