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

Art Live Unknown Following Give Something Over Artists Spaces Themselves

I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself. Kiki Smith

Art Yourself Listening Think Making Lot

I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24. Kiki Smith

Myself Until Artist Start

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

Change Animal Feathers Animals Hair Fur Drawing Proportions Liked Got Geometry Lot Same Just Then Next Body Consciousness Images

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

I was brought up in Zimbabwe, and there were seven of us in my family, so it was difficult to read aloud to us all. There weren't that many picture books around in the Fifties in Zimbabwe. My favourite was Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter, which was really frightening. Korky Paul

Pictures are very important. I remember at home we had illustrated editions of Rudyard Kipling's 'Just So Stories' and 'The Jungle Book,' which were read to me. Living in Zimbabwe made it very real, especially the 'Just So Stories' with the 'great grey-green greasy Limpopo.' Korky Paul

There's a certain visual grammar you've got to stick in. For example, if a character has just woken up, draw him in his pajamas with the bed a bit rumpled. Or if he's ill, draw little bottles with red crosses on that immediately communicate medicine, and a box of tissues. Korky Paul

Character You Communicate Example Medicine Bit Draw Immediately Visual Crosses Bottles He Red For Example Him Box Stick Got Bed His Up Just Grammar Little Certain Ill Pajamas

'Winnie The Witch' transgresses all cultural boundaries. Amusingly, there have been attempts to deconstruct the meaning of the books - that Winnie represents society and Wilbur the disabled - but I think it's just a great story. Korky Paul

Great Think Society Books Disabled Attempts Boundaries Great Story Witch Been Cultural Just Represents Story Meaning Meaning Of

If I want the day off, the boss never says 'No.' I paint away listening to an iTunes jazz station called KCSM Jazz Radio. It's perfect. Good music and no news traffic or celebrities. Korky Paul

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside. Kurt Schwitters

Work Art Picture Outside Self-Sufficient Anything Connected

If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business. Larry Poons

You Business Think Well Want

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color. Larry Poons

People Painting Respond Color Who

The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now. Larry Poons

Simple Past About Only The Only Thing Now Thing

I focus on a lot of women's issues. Lauren Greenfield

Women Focus Issues Lot

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography. Lauren Greenfield

Photography Come Ideas Subjects Film

I am very lucky that my first film was fully commissioned by HBO. Lauren Greenfield

First Am Very Commissioned Fully Lucky Film

I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you? Lauren Greenfield

Work You Culture Sometimes Think Air Extremes See All-Around Mainstream Like Around How Subject Affects Comment Often Breathe Us Working Used Hard Popular Popular Culture Present

I've long been interested in looking at the culture of consumerism and also was interested in this connection between the American dream and the house, and the house being kind of the ultimate expression of self and success. Lauren Greenfield

Success Culture Long Looking Kind Dream Self Consumerism Between House Also Ultimate Been American American Dream Being Interested Connection Expression

When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York. Laurie Simmons

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Parenthetically, I have to say, I don't particularly like dolls, nor have I ever liked them. Laurie Simmons

Say Like Liked Particularly Nor Dolls Them Ever

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say 'housewife'? A home engineer. Laurie Simmons

Home Mother Engineer Father Say Housewife Still Dentist

I love acting. I can't believe how fun it is and how in-the-zone I am when I'm doing it. Laurie Simmons

Love Believe How Am Doing Acting Fun

It's funny: when you're an artist, your own work goes in and out of fashion with you. Laurie Simmons

Work Funny Fashion You Own Out Goes Artist Your

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