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...unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far. — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself. — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything. — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far. — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do - dog eat dog - that's what our culture is... — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who… — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
I do not pose my sitters. I do not deliberate and then concoct... Before painting, when I talk to the person, they unconsciously assume… — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art. — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
If you're sufficiently tenacious and interested, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in this world. — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it. — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist. — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
