The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.
Kiki SmithI like that feeling when youโre making art, that youโre 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 SmithIt is very different when you age. The things that are significant, or what drives you, or the physical experience of being driven, changes over time.
Kiki SmithIt's just disgusting that in this society, the majority of students in art school are women, but they amount to less than 30% of what is shown in museums. That has not changed radically.
Kiki Smith