LeRoy Neiman Quotes

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• I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the…
• Imagination comes of not having things.
• Ive zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of…
• 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.…
• Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.
• 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…
• I hold doors open for all the women. Men can open the doors for themselves.
• I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.
• 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…
• 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.…
• 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…
• 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.'
• I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably.
• I love the passion you go through while you're creating.
• The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.
• 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 know what I like about San Francisco? The women are beautiful, fashionable and smart. San Francisco is one of the only cities I like…
• The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student,…
• I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.
• You can't take yourself too seriously.

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