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.
From Elizabeth Peyton
I think little things are more powerful because they're more honest, so people feel them more strongly.
I lived in London for a time in the '90s and I love it here. You know, I just go and see shows and have great dinners and walk around.
You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.
I think it is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and they start putting themselves out into the world. I think you can see it in people when it's happening. They look different.
I think everybody can be beautiful. Anybody can have beauty. It's about how you look at the world, in a way, and how you treat yourself.
I start listening to something, or I'm seeing somebody a lot or seeing their art. And then I just really want to make a picture of them.
No one is famous when they wake up in the morning, so it's nice seeing people in moments when they're just being themselves.
To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.
I don't rise to the occasion unless I'm really moved.
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