49 Quotes by Kiki Smith

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

I have to make about a million proofs of everything. I don’t know, it’s just a repetition, like a meditation. You come back to something and then you leave it, and then you come back again and you leave it, and each time it changes. And sometimes you have to wait for new information inside yourself to be able to finish something, to find out how it should go.

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.

I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world.

Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.

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.

I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off.

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

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.