"That's what it's all about - making art is making something live forever. Human beings especially - we can't hold on to them in any way. Painting and art is a way of holding onto things and making things go on through time."

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Elizabeth Peyton

#Art Quotes #Forever Quotes #Painting Quotes

“It is my belief that if you have children and you serve overseas, that if you should die, your children should get a free education.”
“I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen, which is so one-dimensional. There's a sense of ownership that you have with books, a physical connection.”
“The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.”
“That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal-unpleasant, but normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature's part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space.”

Source : Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.”
“I support [FRAME's] objectives, largely because I do not believe that results of tests conducted on animals will be neccessarily relevant to human beings...”
“The best content is the means, not the end.”

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