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.
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 blac… - Elizabeth Peyton
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 blac…
- Elizabeth Peyton
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… - Elizabeth Peyton
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…
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
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.
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 … - Elizabeth Peyton
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 …
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 t… - Elizabeth Peyton
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 t…
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 yo… - Elizabeth Peyton
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 yo…
The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different. - Elizabeth Peyton
The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.
Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings. - Elizabeth Peyton
Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings.
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
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.
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