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Freedom Quote by Alice Neel

“The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.” quote by Alice Neel — Download Open image

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

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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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All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.

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

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When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do - dog eat dog - that's what our culture is...

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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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Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who…

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I do not pose my sitters. I do not deliberate and then concoct... Before painting, when I talk to the person, they unconsciously assume…

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When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art.

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If you're sufficiently tenacious and interested, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in this world.

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Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.

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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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I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.

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One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

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I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps.

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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they…

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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.

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We live in the greatest country in the world because of the veterans who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom and the security…

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Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts.

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“No one was more surprised than I to realize that my newfound freedom had been purchased by giving up on eternity and settling for…

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“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action…

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“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived, had no moral ground on which to stand. They had the judges, the juries, the shotguns, the law—in a word, power. But it was a criminal power, to be feared but not respected, and to be…

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is…

Frederick Douglass

“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything…

Wallace Stegner

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