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.
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…
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.
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.
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
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.
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…
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 …
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.
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.
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