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LeRoy Neiman - From the Aging category:
As I turn 91... I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Artists category:
I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Criticism category:
I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Critics category:
I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.' (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Drawing category:
I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw; I just think that if you draw, you better draw well. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Dreams category:
No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Education category:
I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Ego category:
I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Excellence category:
I've zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Gender category:
I hold doors open for all the women. Men can open the doors for themselves. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Humour category:
You can't take yourself too seriously. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Imagination category:
Imagination comes of not having things. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Importance category:
The most important thing is to just do it. If I work at a higher level I have responsibility to do better than what I've done before. Sometimes the best happens - beyond possibility. Just do it. Can't worry about it. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Life category:
It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Models category:
My lovely wife, Janet, has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Originality category:
The businessman says, 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says, 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.' (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Passion category:
I love the passion you go through while you're creating. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Performance category:
I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.' (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Plagiarism category:
Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Portraiture category:
It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Portraiture category:
When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Relaxation category:
Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Repetition category:
Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Searching category:
It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Selling category:
It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few... (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Shock category:
The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on! (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Spectator category:
The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Spirituality category:
There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life; it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a belief; it's a calling. If you're an artist, doing your own thing on your own, it's while you're doing it that counts. It's a process. If you get too elated, you can get too depressed. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Style category:
I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess. (LeRoy Neiman)
LeRoy Neiman - From the Subject category:
I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades, and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over the years. That's what the ancient Greeks first saw, and that's what caught my interest. (LeRoy Neiman)
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