Stella Vine Quotes:

Even in the most horrendous situations there is always something to smile about.

source: - "The 5-minute Interview: Stella Vine: 'There Have Been a Few Times'". The Independent, November 28, 2005.

Topics: Situation

My working hours are not that conventional. I often get up about two in the morning and do a painting, and then I'll have a bath, and then I often feel very hungry around 4am, so I'll go into Soho and have a meal somewhere like Balans. That's what I love about living here - there's always life around me.

source: - "My Home: Stella Vine, Artist" by Tessa Williams-Akoto, www.independent.co.uk. November 30, 2005.

Topics: Morning, Two, Soho

Perhaps the people I choose to paint are often objects of derision celebrity is a bit of a put-down term, isn't it? But to me they are my world.

source: - "Completing my new show was the only thing that saved me from suicide" by Hermione Eyre, The Independent, July 15, 2007.

Topics: People, World, Paint, Derision

I will look through 200 photographs of Kate Moss and there will be just one that I connect with for some reason, maybe because of the composition or something in the eye... Something touches me and I know I have to paint it, in the way a child knows it wants something.

source: - "Stars in her eyes". Hermione Eyre, The Independent on Sunday, July 15, 2007.

Topics: Children, Eye, Looks

I'm looking forward to being old, to be able to accept what I am and become self-sufficient. Mid-forties is a good age and it's not too far away.

source: - "The 5-Minute Interview: Stella Vine: 'There have been a few times" by Karl Mansfield, The Independent, November 28, 2005.

Topics: Self, Age, Able, Being Old

I had been painting Kate Moss for a long time, both before the time of her crisis and during it. I felt very strongly for her - she's a hard-working mum and it seemed as if suddenly the world turned against her. Holy water cannot help you now is painted in very warm pretty colours...

source: - "My Home: Stella Vine, Artist" by Tessa Williams-Akoto, www.independent.co.uk. November 30, 2005.

Topics: Hard Work, Long, Water, Very Strong, Holy Water

I like strong/vulnerable interesting women, and then sometimes I like painting beautiful men, like Kurt Cobain, or Mr Darcy.

source: - "Stella Vine's The Waltz at Museum of New Art". Detroit Museum of New Art, September 15, 2006.

Topics: Beautiful, Strong, Men, Darcy

I think there is a total equality for me between painting a literary figure or Kate Moss or my Mum or a dog or a bird. To me, they are all absolutely equal.

source: - "Stella Vine in conversation with Ana Finel Honigman". Interview with Ana Finel Honigman at Saatchi Gallery site, July 25, 2007.

Topics: Dog, Thinking, Bird, Total Equality

I wanted my work to be seen for free in a public space, I want to be up there with Pollock and de Kooning, one of the big boys.

source: - "Will These Tragic Celebs Bring Art a New Audience?" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.

Topics: Boys, Space, Want, Pollock

Books are my one luxury.

Topics: Book, Luxury

I like to watch old films. Meet Me in St Louis, Cul-de-Sac and Buffalo 66 are some of my favourites.

source: - "My Home: Stella Vine, Artist" by Tessa Williams-Akoto, www.independent.co.uk. November 30, 2005.

Topics: Watches, Buffalo, Film

A common misperception of me is that I am a victim. I am not a victim. I am just honest about how things affect me.

Topics: Common, Honest, Victim, Misperception

I do have a very, very big problem with someone who saw me coming and exploited me as a mascot.

source: - "I Made More Money As A Stripper..." by Andrew Billen, The Times, June 15, 2004.

Topics: Saws, Problem, Mascots

I've lived on my own since I was 13 and not been to school and brought a son up who's now 18 and run theatre companies and bought a butcher's shop, learnt guitar by myself, taught myself to sing and that sort of stuff.

source: - "I Made More Money As A Stripper..." by Andrew Billen, The Times, June 15, 2004.

Topics: Running, School, Son

On Christmas Day I'll head off for a couple of laps around the Serpentine, or a trek around the whole of Hyde Park. Or I'll walk right across town, with Curtis, my son Jamie's bull mastiff

source: - "My Christmas". www.theguardian.com. December 08, 2008.

Topics: Couple, Son, Lap, Hyde Park, Mastiffs

Books are my one luxury. I have a lot of large coffee-table-size art books, in the shelves above my bed, about people like Warhol, Basquiat and Velasquez.

source: - "My Home: Stella Vine, Artist" by Tessa Williams-Akoto, www.independent.co.uk. November 30, 2005.

Topics: Book, Luxury