It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint.
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 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
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
Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that. - Alice Neel
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.
If you're sufficiently tenacious and interested, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in this world. - Alice Neel
If you're sufficiently tenacious and interested, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in this world.
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
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 …
Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it. - Alice Neel
Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.
When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do--dog eat dog-- that's what our culture is.... Not cooperation but assassination. Wo… - Alice Neel
When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do--dog eat dog-- that's what our culture is.... Not cooperation but assassination. Wo…
Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist. - Alice Neel
Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.
You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything. - Alice Neel
You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.
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