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

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Source : "Elizabeth Peyton brings fame and celebrity to the Whitechapel Gallery". www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2009.

Elizabeth Peyton

#Needs Quotes #Paint Quotes #Wells Quotes

“Transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it.”
“Whether you work in news, sport, politics, whatever, it's exactly the same; a story is a story, is a story. I consider myself first and foremost a journalist.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“I'm not a mass-appeal artist.”
“The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.”

Source : Talcott Parsons, Robert Freed Bales (1956). “Family Socialization and Interaction Process”, p.16, Psychology Press
“Life is too important to take seriously.”
“What artists have accomplished is realizing there's only a small amount of stuff that's important and then seeing what it was.”
“Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.”
“The important thing is to keep trying”

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