I think little things are more powerful because they're more honest, so people feel them more strongly. — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
I think it is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and they start putting themselves… — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In… — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different. — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
I lived in London for a time in the '90s and I love it here. You know, I just go and see shows and… — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings. — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
I think little things are more powerful because they're more honest, so people feel them more strongly. — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
