If you're sufficiently tenacious and interested, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in this world.

- Alice Neel

Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by …

- Alice Neel

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

- Alice Neel

Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.

- Alice Neel

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

- Alice Neel

You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is…

- Alice Neel

You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.

- Alice Neel

You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.

- Alice Neel

Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.

- Alice Neel