Alice Neel Quotes

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• 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…
• Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.
• Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
• I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.
• Lucky for me, as old as I am, I can still change.
• If you're sufficiently tenacious and interested, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in this world.
• The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.
• When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do - dog eat dog - that's what our culture is...
• When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art.
• 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…
• You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.
• I do not pose my sitters. I do not deliberate and then concoct... Before painting, when I talk to the person, they unconsciously assume their…
• It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't…
• Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.
• 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…
• Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.
• 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…
• You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.
• 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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