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

~Elizabeth Peyton

Topics: Because Feel Honest Little Little Things More People Powerful Strongly Them Things Think I Think

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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

Topics: About Anybody Beautiful Beauty Everybody How Look Think Treat Way World You Yourself I Think

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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

Topics: Any Art Contemporary Contemporary Art Depends Each End Good Ideas In The End Longer Much Night One Night Openings Piece Separate Strength Than Trajectory

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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

Topics: Around Dinners Go Great Here Just Know Lived London Love See Shows Time Walk You I Love

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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

Topics: About Beauty Because Being Endless Fixed Just Learnt Like Live Romanticism State You

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

~Elizabeth Peyton

Topics: Art Believe Faith Make Need Really Stand Stand Up Up You Yourself

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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

Topics: Amazing Different Happening Look Moment Out People Putting Realize See Start Themselves Think World You I Think

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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

Topics: Art Just Listening Lot Make Picture Really Seeing Somebody Something Start Them Then Want

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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

Topics: Being Famous Just Moments Morning Nice People Seeing Themselves Up Wake Wake Up

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

~Elizabeth Peyton

Topics: Need Paint Subjects Well

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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