Elizabeth Peyton Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Elizabeth Peyton:

I think little things are more powerful because they're more honest, so people feel them more strongly.
~Elizabeth Peyton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/elizabeth-peyton-quotes/#562c0606

A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts.
~Elizabeth Peyton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/elizabeth-peyton-quotes/#8bbe7089

No one is famous when they wake up in the morning, so it's nice seeing people in moments when they're just being themselves.
~Elizabeth Peyton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/elizabeth-peyton-quotes/#3882bc6b

I don't rise to the occasion unless I'm really moved.
~Elizabeth Peyton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/elizabeth-peyton-quotes/#48d7ea7b

There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.
~Elizabeth Peyton


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/elizabeth-peyton-quotes/#f1e57145

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/elizabeth-peyton-quotes/#2fd89f96

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/elizabeth-peyton-quotes/#154336a0

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/elizabeth-peyton-quotes/#b87035f6

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/elizabeth-peyton-quotes/#6132ccb7

To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.
~Elizabeth Peyton


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/elizabeth-peyton-quotes/#07e96799

In 19th-century France, artists were part of government. Artists are very sensitive to their time. They're very thoughtful people - it makes sense to hear what they have to say.
~Elizabeth Peyton


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/elizabeth-peyton-quotes/#7a7927cb

I love the idea that someone I like would have a piece of mine in their house and have a relationship with it.
~Elizabeth Peyton


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/elizabeth-peyton-quotes/#4da11d6d

I think 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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/elizabeth-peyton-quotes/#5e7b8a7e

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/elizabeth-peyton-quotes/#17466748

I start listening to something, or I'm seeing somebody a lot or seeing their art. And then I just really want to make a picture of them.
~Elizabeth Peyton


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/elizabeth-peyton-quotes/#21cee6f8

If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In the end, it depends on the strength of ideas in each piece.
~Elizabeth Peyton


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/elizabeth-peyton-quotes/#68aec22f

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