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

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


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



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



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Lucky for me, as old as I am, I can still change.



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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.



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The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.





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