“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.”
Quote by Alice Neel
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Alice Neel
Alice Neel was an American painter and sculptor renowned for her realistic and emotionally charged portraits. Her work primarily focused on the lives of the working class, the poor, and the marginalized, reflecting a profound empathy and social consciousness. Over the course of her five-decade career, Neel produced a vast body of work that has been recognized for its raw honesty and powerful imagery. more