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Alice Neel - From the Aging category:
Lucky for me, as old as I am, I can still change. (Alice Neel)
Alice Neel - From the Composition category:
I like it first to be art, so actually dividing up the canvas is one of the most exciting things for me. (Alice Neel)
Alice Neel - From the Determination category:
If you're sufficiently tenacious and interested, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in this world. (Alice Neel)
Alice Neel - From the Experience category:
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)
Alice Neel - From the Freedom category:
The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself. (Alice Neel)
Alice Neel - From the Gender category:
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that. (Alice Neel)
Alice Neel - From the Gender category:
When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do - dog eat dog - that's what our culture is... (Alice Neel)
Alice Neel - From the Gender category:
When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art. (Alice Neel)
Alice Neel - From the Happiness category:
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 it. (Alice Neel)
Alice Neel - From the Humanity category:
You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything. (Alice Neel)
Alice Neel - From the Interest category:
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)
Alice Neel - From the Models category:
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 most characteristic pose, which in a way involves all their character and social standing – what the world has done to them and their retaliation. (Alice Neel)
Alice Neel - From the Obsession category:
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 do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint. (Alice Neel)
Alice Neel - From the Portraiture category:
Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist. (Alice Neel)
Alice Neel - From the Portraiture category:
I like it not only to look like the person but to have their inner character as well. And then I like it to express the zeitgeist. See, I don't like something from the '60s to look like something in the '70s. (Alice Neel)
Alice Neel - From the Profession category:
It was more than a profession. It was even a therapy, for there I just told it as it was. It takes a lot of courage in life to tell it how it is. (Alice Neel)
Alice Neel - From the Sacrifice category:
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 had had to be put into art materials. (Alice Neel)
Alice Neel - From the Searching category:
As an artist, you're always searching for freedom and never finding it... Art could be call 'The Search.' (Alice Neel)
Alice Neel - From the Standards category:
Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it. (Alice Neel)
Alice Neel - From the Subject category:
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 been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York. (Alice Neel)
Alice Neel - From the Theory category:
You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you. (Alice Neel)
Alice Neel - From the Thinking category:
I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me. (Alice Neel)
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