"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

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“I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.”
“Through Economic Action Plan 2015, our Government will continue to help create jobs, encourage skills development and balance the budget in 2015. I look forward to hearing Canadians' ideas on what we can do to further support and grow the economy for the benefit of all Canadians.”
“Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto it and people will always, always be looking for an answer for some vague illness they can't get a diagnosis for.”
“I don't think my mum ever understood my love of Doctor Who. Surely her strongest memory would have been me, standing at the top of the stairs, crying about how the "jelly men" were going to get me? Sorry, Mum, for those sleepless nights, but it was with good reason they called it Terror of the Zygons.”
“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.”
“The ocean is this beautiful, unexplored place. Why on Earth everyone isn't down there, I don't know.”
“I know I am a human being. I can give myself to one year for a project. That is why I say I'm primitive in the way I work, especially compared to most artists. I came to New York in 1974, knowing that it is the art center of the world. But I didn't go to find people for my work. I do the work, and the people come to me, and I learn from them. That has always been my approach - to do the job first and then to respond to it after I finish and learn what people think about it. That's how I develop, and I'm more of an outsider in that way.”
“Humans: become atheists each and all! God will nevertheless welcome you with all his heart!”

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