Elizabeth Peyton Quotes

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

Elizabeth Peyton

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• Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Building
  • Bridges
  • Walls

• I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Plan
  • Draw

• I never ever paid attention to any election.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Attention
  • Never
  • Election

• The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Why
  • Question
  • See

• Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Together
  • Simple
  • Better

• You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • School
  • Guy
  • Opportunity

• I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • Love
  • Seeing
  • Tattoos

• I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.

  

  Adam McKay
  • American
  • Culture
  • Doubt

• I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Stop

• No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Women
  • Question
  • Crazy

• I haven't signed as many films as I'd like to because there are no good roles, as disheartening as it is to say.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Good
  • Like
  • Say

• The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Why
  • Human
  • Expression

• I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Time
  • Great
  • Relationship

• It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • School
  • Education

• Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Life
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing... and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • World
  • Family
  • Job

• I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Childhood

• The reason is not simply because of my opinion of him. It is because it is unimaginable that you can stop the civil war there when the overwhelming majority of people in Syria consider him to be a brutal, murderous dictator.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • War
  • Stop

• It’s very hard to prosper in this modern economy if you haven’t fully unleashed the potential of your people. And your people’s potential, in part, derives from their ability to express themselves and express new ideas, to try to right wrongs that are taking place in the society.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Society

• Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Happy
  • Intellect
  • Troubles

• Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest.

  

  Sandy Duncan
  • Mother
  • Jobs
  • Careers

• I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.

  

  Keith Urban
  • People
  • World
  • Music

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

  

  Elizabeth Peyton