Top 26 Elizabeth Peyton Quotes
#1. Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.
Jerry Saltz
#2. What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
John Ruskin
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow. The lake froze solid and the Weasley twins were punished for bewitching several snowballs so that they followed Quirrell around, bouncing off the back of his turban.
J.K. Rowling
#9. I like the really human sides of people. To meet them and see that theyre 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
#10. There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.
Elizabeth Peyton
#12. Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.
Charles Lamb
#13. 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
#14. I had a lot of fear that would motivate me to try to work hard, because I didn't know what I would do if I wasn't a baseball player.
R.A. Dickey
#15. The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.
Elizabeth Peyton
#16. You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.
Elizabeth Peyton
#17. I like architectural shapes. You can't put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel flattering.
Bibhu Mohapatra
#18. 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
#20. 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
#21. I didn't mean it' he said again. She tried to smile, but had to sniff instead. Her face was wet, and her nose was running. He thought she looked beautiful.
Brock Cole
#22. I think little things are more powerful because they're more honest, so people feel them more strongly.
Elizabeth Peyton
#23. 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
#24. We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them
Laurence Sterne
#25. We were all people - men and women - and you could never say that one group of people was less important than another.
Alexander McCall Smith
#26. 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
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