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Top 25 Kiki Smith Quotes (2025 Update)

Kiki Smith Quote: “If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow.”

1. “If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow.”

Kiki Smith Quote: “I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.”

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

Kiki Smith Quote: “I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.”

3. “I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.”

Kiki Smith Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

Kiki Smith Quote: “I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some other lifetime.”

5. “I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some other lifetime.”

Kiki Smith Quote: “You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I’m given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one’s own vision.”

6. “You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I’m given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one’s own vision.”

Kiki Smith Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

Kiki Smith Quote: “My iPhone has changed my life – I spend hours taking photos of the sidewalk as I walk down the street. I like the casualness, that it’s low-resolution.”

8. “My iPhone has changed my life – I spend hours taking photos of the sidewalk as I walk down the street. I like the casualness, that it’s low-resolution.”

Kiki Smith Quote: “I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.”

9. “I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.”

Kiki Smith Quote: “I think making things beautiful is important. But often what’s first considered ugly is beautiful, too.”

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

Kiki Smith Quote: “I trust my work. It’s a collaboration with the material, and when it’s viewed, it’s a collaboration with the world.”

11. “I trust my work. It’s a collaboration with the material, and when it’s viewed, it’s a collaboration with the world.”

Kiki Smith Quote: “Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there’s a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.”

12. “Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there’s a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.”

Kiki Smith Quote: “Prior to my father’s death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that’s not because of who he was – it was because of who I am. It’s true, though, that I felt I shouldn’t compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.”

13. “Prior to my father’s death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that’s not because of who he was – it was because of who I am. It’s true, though, that I felt I shouldn’t compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.”

Kiki Smith Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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

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

Kiki Smith Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

Kiki Smith Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

Kiki Smith Quote: “I always say I’m Catholic – but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn’t say I’m a spiritual person, although I pray every day.”

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

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

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

Kiki Smith Quote: “The point isn’t to know what you’re doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.”

20. “The point isn’t to know what you’re doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.”

Kiki Smith Quote: “The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.”

21. “The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.”

Kiki Smith Quote: “Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.”

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

Kiki Smith Quote: “One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.”

23. “One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.”

Kiki Smith Quote: “Our culture seems to believe that it’s entertaining to teach women to be frightened.”

24. “Our culture seems to believe that it’s entertaining to teach women to be frightened.”

Kiki Smith Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

Kiki Smith Quote: “It’s fun, in a way, to explore what’s risky in one’s life.”

26. “It’s fun, in a way, to explore what’s risky in one’s life.”

Kiki Smith Quote: “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.”

27. “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 Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

Kiki Smith Quote: “I didn’t start to be an artist myself until I was 24.”

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

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