Alice Neel

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

— Alice Neel

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

— Alice Neel

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

— Alice Neel

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

— Alice Neel

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

— Alice Neel

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

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

— Alice Neel

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

— Alice Neel

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

— Alice Neel

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

— Alice Neel

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

— Alice Neel

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

— Alice Neel

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

— Alice Neel

I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that…

— Alice Neel

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

— Alice Neel

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

— Alice Neel

You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience…

— Alice Neel

Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.

— Alice Neel

The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what…

— Alice Neel

It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of…

— Alice Neel

When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do--dog eat dog-- that's what our culture is.... Not cooperation but…

— Alice Neel

I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is…

— Alice Neel