That’s not for you to say
From Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty, by Phoebe Hoban, p. 19:
Even then, she had her own aristocratic way of doing things. When an old-fashioned art teacher criticized her naturalistic method of painting hair, suggesting she simply color it in, she told him, “Well, that isn’t the way the hair goes. I don’t want to put in a tone.” When he told her, “Before you conquer art, you’ll have to conquer yourself,” Alice retorted, “That’s not for you to say because you are only my beginning teacher.”
