Elizabeth Neel Quotes

• 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

  Feelings, World, Might

  Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• 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

  School, Artist, Thinking

  Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one's own home, say, like the farm I grew up on in Vermont, the kinds of things that can happen seem much more extreme. Maybe because it's more personal. Or maybe because you block out the things that happen in the city. But it's like seeing things born, live, die, fall apart, and start over again, without any intermediary clean-up steps from some corporate organization.

  Elizabeth Neel

  New York, Block, Fall

  Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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

  Elizabeth Neel

  Cerebro

  Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• 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

  Finishing It, Skills, Needs

  Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree besides become a historian? And the professors in school, it seemed like they were just writing books for other professors to comment on, and vice versa - it was the most self-referential, boring world you could ever imagine.

  Elizabeth Neel

  Book, Writing, School

  Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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

  Elizabeth Neel

  World, Paint, I Can

  Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• 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

  Nice, Elements, Tables

  Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• Even though I don't have any larger spiritual or ideological system, there is some logic in concert with a huge number of beautiful, disconcerting, screwed-up variables that results in a certain visual pleasure in violent things. Like a broken egg yolk can be the most violent thing I've seen all day, if I'm in the right mood. But also tons of trash in the woods or a burned-up trailer park can also come across as especially violent.

  Elizabeth Neel

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Eggs

  Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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