"Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings."

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Source : "Manhattan rhapsodies" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2009.

Elizabeth Peyton

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“He did say I fascinated him, but he really should have clarified to me that I was just the fascination for the day.”
“I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.”

Source : Alastair Reynolds (2002). “Revelation Space”, p.30, Penguin
“I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a tree doesn't make sense. You see it in the distance and it looks small, but as you go closer, it seems to grow - you haven't got a handle on the rules when you're a child. We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experienced is a narrowing of the imagination.”
“Poverty is in separatism. Abundance is in unity.”
“I mangle phrases constantly. The other day I was chatting with my boyfriend and I said to him, 'He really sold him under the bus.' And he said, 'I think you meant 'threw him under the bus,' or 'sold him up the river.”

Source : "Once Star Cristin Milioti Gets Into the Sister Act in Sleepwalk With Me". Interview with Iris Wiener, www.theatermania.com. August 24, 2012.
“Government is essentially the negation of liberty.”
“Being a mother by far is my favorite and most important career.”

Source : "Jenni Rivera Passes Away: PARADE's Final Interview With the Latin Sensation". Interview with Mary Margaret, parade.com. August 2, 2012.
“Many people learn how to talk, but they don't learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music tells us how to do that.”

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