Alice Neel Quotes
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.
All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.
Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.
The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it.
Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.
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 the rat race in New York.
The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.
I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.
I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials.
Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.
If you're sufficiently tenacious and interested, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in this world.
When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do - dog eat dog - that's what our culture is.
