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If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In the end, it depends on the strength of ideas in each piece. Elizabeth Peyton

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. Elizabeth Peyton

You People World Amazing Think Out See Putting Look Different Happening Realize Themselves Moment Start

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

Well Subjects Paint Need

A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts. Elizabeth Peyton

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different. Elizabeth Peyton

You People Face Draw Photographed Faces Make Very Different Them

I love the idea that someone I like would have a piece of mine in their house and have a relationship with it. Elizabeth Peyton

Love Relationship Mine Would Someone Idea Like Piece House

I work intentionally to try and make dense, complex things. We can move between genres and forms, from something that looks like a PowerPoint lecture to something that looks like an informercial to something that looks like a cinematic melodrama. Elizabeth Price

Work Try Cinematic Complex Melodrama Something Between Like PowerPoint Looks Make Genres Lecture Dense Move Intentionally Forms Things

Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity. Elizabeth Price

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I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports. Elizabeth Price

Music Art Sports Some Pretty Pop Pop Music View Even Include

I just really respond to comics. I find it a really exciting medium. Ellen Forney

Medium Respond Find Exciting Comics Just Really

I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of. Ellen Forney

Crazy Think Van Van Gogh Ultimate Gogh Artist Really

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand. Ellen Forney

Myself Way Poets Understand Comics Trying Just Process Express Things

My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world. Ellen Gallagher

Work Me Together World Important Think Other Top Recognisable Woven Intuitive Something Materials Hand Sitting Just Happenstance Really

Regardless of your support, you need to make work. Ellen Gallagher

Work You Support Make Regardless Your Need

My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. Ellen Gallagher

Work Other Intuitive Hand Happenstance

When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me. Ellen Gallagher

Me Magic Something Writer Makes Forever

Matisse draws what I call the essence of the plants. He leaves a shape open. He'll do a leaf and not close it. Everybody used to say, oh, I got it all from Matisse, and I said, 'Not really.' Ellsworth Kelly

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I have a sort of inner sense for scale. Ellsworth Kelly

Sense Scale Sort Inner

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