Quotes from Alice Neel

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

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

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

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