Elizabeth Peyton Quotes

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the paintings I saw, the Soviets were right the first time.

If it's good art, it's good.

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

A contemporary artist like Grayson Perry is brilliant partly because of his expert knowledge of art history, not despite it.

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.

It's clever, but is it Art?

There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.