Elizabeth Peyton Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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