“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.” WayYearsI CanTogetherPiecesYears AgoBack TogetherHumpty Dumpty Author:Kiki Smith
“One's self is always shifting in relationship to beauty and you always have to be able to incorporate yourself or your new self into life. Like your skin starts hanging off your arms and stuff, and then you have to think, well that's really beautiful too. It just isn't beautiful in a way that I knew it was beautiful before.” ThinkingWayWellsSelfAbleBeautifulStuffLike YouArmsSkinsShiftingReally BeautifulNew Self Author:Kiki Smith
“I had stopped making figures, and then I began making images of animals in nature, which was a way to introduce the figure.” WayAnimalFiguresIntroducingAnimals In Nature Author:Kiki Smith
“Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways.” WayLife Is Author:Kiki Smith
“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.” PeopleWayArtMovingCareersHappenedHappeningsLuckPrivileged Author:Kiki Smith
“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.” WayWantCertainInterestCreaturesComplicatedContradictoryMessiness Author:Kiki Smith
