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

- Kiki Smith

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

- Kiki Smith

The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.

- Kiki Smith

When you get older, you're running out of time. You care more about trying to stay on the planet a little longer, so you can learn how to draw better!

- Kiki Smith

Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

- Kiki Smith

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 …

- Kiki Smith

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

- Kiki Smith

I'm reminded of the arm, and the body, and the appendage.

- Kiki Smith

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

- Kiki Smith