Stella Vine quotes
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“Even in the most horrendous situations there is always something to smile about.”
-- Stella VineSource : "The 5-minute Interview: Stella Vine: 'There Have Been a Few Times'". The Independent, November 28, 2005.
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“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.”
-- Stella VineSource : "My Home: Stella Vine, Artist" by Tessa Williams-Akoto, www.independent.co.uk. November 30, 2005.
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“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.”
-- Stella VineSource : "Completing my new show was the only thing that saved me from suicide" by Hermione Eyre, The Independent, July 15, 2007.
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“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.”
-- Stella VineSource : "Stars in her eyes". Hermione Eyre, The Independent on Sunday, July 15, 2007.
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“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.”
-- Stella VineSource : "The 5-Minute Interview: Stella Vine: 'There have been a few times" by Karl Mansfield, The Independent, November 28, 2005.
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“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...”
-- Stella VineSource : "My Home: Stella Vine, Artist" by Tessa Williams-Akoto, www.independent.co.uk. November 30, 2005.
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“I like strong/vulnerable interesting women, and then sometimes I like painting beautiful men, like Kurt Cobain, or Mr Darcy.”
-- Stella VineSource : "Stella Vine's The Waltz at Museum of New Art". Detroit Museum of New Art, September 15, 2006.
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“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.”
-- Stella VineSource : "Stella Vine in conversation with Ana Finel Honigman". Interview with Ana Finel Honigman at Saatchi Gallery site, July 25, 2007.
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“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.”
-- Stella VineSource : "Will These Tragic Celebs Bring Art a New Audience?" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.
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“I like to watch old films. Meet Me in St Louis, Cul-de-Sac and Buffalo 66 are some of my favourites.”
-- Stella VineSource : "My Home: Stella Vine, Artist" by Tessa Williams-Akoto, www.independent.co.uk. November 30, 2005.
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“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.”
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“I do have a very, very big problem with someone who saw me coming and exploited me as a mascot.”
-- Stella VineSource : "I Made More Money As A Stripper..." by Andrew Billen, The Times, June 15, 2004.
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“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.”
-- Stella VineSource : "I Made More Money As A Stripper..." by Andrew Billen, The Times, June 15, 2004.
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“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”
-- Stella VineSource : "My Christmas". www.theguardian.com. December 08, 2008.
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