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