Q: You just wanted to be yourself.
Alice Neel : I am not sure I was ever myself. I was myself but myself in our social systems. The place where I had freedom was when I painted. When I painted I was completely and utterly myself. For that reason it was extremely important to me. It was more than a profession. It was even a therapy, for there I just told it as it was. You see it takes a lot of courage in life to tell it how it is of course not so much now as then.
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