Kiki Smith Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 18, 1954

Topics

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The substance of painting is light.

Andre Derain

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Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times.

John McCain

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If you put out quality music, you're always going to be in a good place.

Romeo Santos

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O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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I'm not a mumble rapper.

Joyner Lucas

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Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.

Jaron Lanier

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Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.

Douglas Coupland

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I have a really basic uniform: in winter, black tights and any old dress that I can throw on. In summer, high-waisted jeans and this shirt, or that shirt, and a cashmere cardigan just in case.

Claudia Schiffer

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Like civil suits, criminal investigations take the president's focus away from his or her responsibilities to the people.

Brett Kavanaugh

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My mum was a dancer when she was a kid. Then my parents met and eventually had an art gallery; my dad taught himself how to frame pictures, and then he was a curator at an art gallery in the city I'm from. I'm an only child.

Ari Millen

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They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March.

William John Wills

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It's not like I've got 100 ideas. I finish a book, and I've got none.

Peter Carey

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