Elizabeth Peyton Quotes

• You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.

  Elizabeth Peyton

  Art, Believe, Needs

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• That's what it's all about - making art is making something live forever. Human beings especially - we can't hold on to them in any way. Painting and art is a way of holding onto things and making things go on through time.

  Elizabeth Peyton

  Art, Forever, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think everybody can be beautiful. Anybody can have beauty. It's about how you look at the world, in a way, and how you treat yourself.

  Elizabeth Peyton

  Beautiful, Thinking, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

  Elizabeth Peyton

  People, Different, Faces

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• Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.

  Elizabeth Peyton

  States, Fixed, Endless

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• To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.

  Elizabeth Peyton

  Needs, Paint, Wells

  "Elizabeth Peyton brings fame and celebrity to the Whitechapel Gallery". www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2009.

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• It is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and they start putting themselves out into the world. I think you can see it in people when it's happening. They look different.

  Elizabeth Peyton

  Thinking, People, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like the really human sides of people. To meet them and see that they’re complicated and weird or shy or any of those things sort of makes it even better—to know that they can rise above that and make something great.

  Elizabeth Peyton

  People, Shy, Sides

  "Elizabeth Peyton" by Jarvis Cocker, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2008.

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• Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings.

  Elizabeth Peyton

  Emotion, Painting, Communicate

  "Manhattan rhapsodies" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2009.

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• I don't think meeting people that I've done pictures of spoils it at all because I like the really human sides of people. To meet them and see that they're complicated and weird or shy or any of those things sort of makes it even better - to know that they can rise above that and make something great.

  Elizabeth Peyton

  Thinking, People, Shy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I lived in London for a time in the '90s and I love it here. You know, I just go and see shows and have great dinners and walk around.

  Elizabeth Peyton

  Dinner, London, Walks

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• Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman was one of those books I read in my mid-twenties that was life-changing. I think I had a very black-and-white view of Marie Antoinette before, but in reading that book, I developed a lot of empathy for her. She was just caught up in history. There was no place for a woman to do anything at that time anyway.

  Elizabeth Peyton

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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