16 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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