Elizabeth Peyton Quotes

I hope they see the genuine side of me, of my music, of my voice. I hope that they feel me. I hope that what I sing and what I say really gets across to the viewer because everything that comes out is true.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.

Anytime I hear songs that are so honest, whether they make the person who's singing it look good or not, there's a level of honesty that resonates with people.

You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'

The Truth never flaunted a sign.

I don't like to act in my personal life. I like to be straightforward.

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

Fiction, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy. It seeks to join, to merge, to know deeply; and, as with intimacy, there is a way in which it cannot be faked.

You don't need to over-dramatise life, you can just reflect it. It's more interesting, in a way, if it appears to ring true.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

I don't believe in putting on airs. I call it like I see it.

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

If people could be as honest as animals, what a different world it would be.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

I have no affectation when I speak.

I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get.

The best strips are the most honest. That's just the truth of it.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.