Elizabeth Neel Quotes

#1. Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it ... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done.

Elizabeth Neel

#2. When I eat, I always pick out the best parts in the middle and leave everything else on the side. It becomes a big sculptural mess, but there are nice compositional elements about how it all sits on the table.

Elizabeth Neel

#3. When you see something every day, it gets into your brain.

Elizabeth Neel

#4. I didn't think of being an artist until after I went away to boarding school. There were other things to be interested in. And it seemed like a nightmare.

Elizabeth Neel

#5. All I can say is that when I paint, I am looking at things that are in the world.

Elizabeth Neel

#6. I see my work as having a relationship to the visual world, not just some emotive residue of my feelings. It relates to something that exists, or might exist, rather than a transcendent mental state or something like that.

Elizabeth Neel