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
In our family, there wasn't ...
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I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!
Kiki Smith
It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively dilapidated, and one could live on a pretty low income. One could live well below the poverty line and not suffer immensely.
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.
Kiki Smith
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
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
