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, …

- Elizabeth Neel

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…

- Elizabeth Neel

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, s…

- Elizabeth Neel

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

- Elizabeth Neel

I see my work as having a relationship to the visual world, not just some emotive residue of my feelings. It relates to something that exists, or mig…

- Elizabeth Neel

When I eat, I always pick out the best parts in the middle and leave everything else on the side. It becomes a big sculptural mess, but there are nic…

- Elizabeth Neel

I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree besides become a historian? And th…

- Elizabeth Neel

I didn't think of being an artist until after I went away to boarding school. There were other things to be interested in. And it seemed like a night…

- Elizabeth Neel

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

- Elizabeth Neel