Kiki Smith Quotes

I just want to keep going as long as I can. I'm getting older, and I want to keep growing, and I feel pretty excited about what I do. Whether it's true or not, I believe I'm doing better as a writer, which is really nice.

Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.

I just find that each year I try something new. You can't fight the march of time. To balance that out, each year you should develop one more good habit. It levels the playing field.

Money won't change you, but time will take you out.

You do have to put in a lot time to get good at anything and than includes cartoons. So I think it's true of art and everything else.

Before I had a child, I had goals. And I still have to accomplish those goals, but now that I have a child, I have more goals to accomplish. So I can't waste time.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

I had been teaching myself photography.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

There is a Fountain of Youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

'Back To Love' is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be successful in school or in your social life, and it's a reminder not to forget that each day people are getting older. Nobody is promised tomorrow, so we should make sure that we spend quality time with quality people.

Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

I try to read writers who are better than me because it inspires me to be better.

No, I didn't quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to try to learn new skills and to keep fit at the same time.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

I started out modeling at a young age and surrounded myself with different brilliant minds. I have so many people to get educated from, and I've been a sponge.

I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.