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“All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world.”

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Elizabeth Neel, born in 1975, is a talented artist known for her unique perspective and imaginative works. Her art has won the appreciation of both the art world and the public. more

“The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one's own home, say, like the farm I grew up on in Vermont, the kinds of things that can happen seem much more extreme. Maybe because it's more personal. Or maybe because you block out the things that happen in the city. But it's like seeing things born, live, die, fall apart, and start over again, without any intermediary clean-up steps from some corporate organization.”

“I think I'm not in this work to not look at life as it is. I'm not in it to say, "I want to wear a mask and escape," you know. I want to know what's happening in the world, and I want to have it touch me in a way that I can do something, my little part like that, and have it somehow translate.”

Thinking Knows World Way Want Looks Littles I Can Can Do Happenings Mask Translate Can Do Something Touch Me

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“Even though I don't have any larger spiritual or ideological system, there is some logic in concert with a huge number of beautiful, disconcerting, screwed-up variables that results in a certain visual pleasure in violent things. Like a broken egg yolk can be the most violent thing I've seen all day, if I'm in the right mood. But also tons of trash in the woods or a burned-up trailer park can also come across as especially violent.”

“When you see something every day, it gets into your brain.”

Brain

Author:Elizabeth Neel

“Working with Jim Sheridan for instance, we did this movie Brothers. Jim will ask anybody - we'll get a delivery on set, and like the poor delivery guy will be like, "Here's your pizza," and he'll be like, "Come over here. Come here. I want to ask you a question. Do you think this is real? What do you think? Should we do another take?" And they're like, "I, uh, you want your pizza?" There's no shame in everybody's ideas. There's no shame in somebody not knowing.”

Thinking Want Should Ideas Real Guy Asks Poor Knowing Brother Shame Instance Not Knowing Pizza Delivery

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“There's no shame in somebody who doesn't necessarily do that job knowing a little bit more in that instance than you might know about your own job, you know, and I think that is where movies are such a collaborative art form.”

Thinking Knows Littles Art Might Jobs Form Bits Knowing Little Bit Shame Instance

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done.”

Knows Needs Sometimes Done Easy Painting Skills Starting Painter Finishing Finishing It

Author:Elizabeth Neel

“I don't have a "I want to play this or that," I just don't have that. I've never been like that.”

Want Play

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“People say to me, well "What's the character you really want to play?" And I go, I don't know.”

People Knows Want Wells Play Character

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

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