1926

Beggars, Havana, Cuba

"Everybody wants everything. It's just that they have to get practical and they settle."

- Alice Neel

welfare painter

Carlos Enriquez, 1926

"We always had this dream that she would be recognized and that she'd be able to get some money, but it really did not work out that way."

- Alice Neel's [born 1900] lawyer son Richard, who said that there are very few people who are as right-wing as he is, and that there were very few people who were as left-wing as he was as a kid.