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Crashing Quote by Alice Neel

“You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.” quote by Alice Neel — Download Open image

“You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.”

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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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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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