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You can't take yourself too seriously.
Leroy Neiman / Artist
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Imagination comes of not having things.
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I love the passion you go through while you're creating.
Leroy Neiman / Artist
Creating
Passion
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As I turn 91... I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished.
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Hours
Turns
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I hold doors open for all the women. Men can open the doors for themselves.
Leroy Neiman / Artist
Men
Doors
The Doors
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It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few.
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Difficult
Painting
Selling
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I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably.
Leroy Neiman / Artist
Feels
I Can
People
People Feel I Can
Respond
Easily
Ignore
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But 'Playboy' was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle.
Leroy Neiman / Artist
Liberating
Playboy
Throttle
Drawn
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As I turn 91 this June 8th, I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished.
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June
Admit
Diminished
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It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.
Leroy Neiman / Artist
Life Best Art
Pull
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Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.
Leroy Neiman / Artist
Every Time
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The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.
Leroy Neiman / Artist
Painting
People
Spectators
Viewers
Love People Who
Respond
Paintings
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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 / Artist
Attitude
Ambition
My Own
Old Self
Self
Tunes
Attitudes
Old
Intractable
Stayed
Tune
Worse
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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 / Artist
Artist
Businessman
Firsts
Nobody Else
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Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.
Leroy Neiman / Artist
Friends
Great
Ambience
Beauty Of Life
Eating
My Favorite
Beauties
Favorite
Service
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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 / Artist
Art
Art History
Crucial
Developing
Study
Training
Art History Always
Fully
Scholastic
Studying
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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 / Artist
Able
Drawing
Painter
Thinking
Draw
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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 / Artist
Artist
Believer
Important
Theory
Work Me Important
Nobody Else
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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 / Artist
Men
Excellence
Nice
People
Life Best Man
Subject
Valid
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'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.
Leroy Neiman / Artist
Affluence
Good Life
Luxury
Playboy
Subject Matter
Life Good Reality
Subject
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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 / Artist
Call Me
Firsts
Style
Me Doing Know
Expressionist
Impressionist
Labeled
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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 / Artist
Artist
Roosters
Successful
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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 / Artist
Including
Series
Produced
Rooster
Several
Television Series
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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 / Artist
Copies
Exclusive
Paint
People
Style
Trying
Agent
Claim
Sell
Publisher
Representative
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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 / Artist
Arrogance
Cases
Humbling
People
Talent
Use
Draw
God-Given
God-Given Talent
Measure
Sketch
Subject
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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 themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.
Leroy Neiman / Artist
Art
Excellence
Giving
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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 / Artist
Excellence
Succeed
Pull
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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 / Artist
Careers
Limelight
Lovely
Reserved
Wife
Sought
Throughout
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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 / Artist
Art
Dream
Canvas
Sleep
Work Out
Yours
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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 / Artist
Abstract
Expressionism
Guy
Paint
Shock
Students
Life Work My Life
Academically
Broom
Pour
Smear
Suddenly
Trained
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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 / Artist
Higher
Higher Level
Important
Just Do It
Possibility
Responsibility
Worry
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
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Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.
Leroy Neiman / Artist
Jobs
Ballet
Boxing
Events
Excited
Good Job
Passion
Real
Spectacular
Theatre
Visual
Fights
Boxer
Real Passion
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Throughout my life, cigars have played different roles for me. They fit easily and well in the various stages and experiences Ive had -- like a companion, almost. If youve smoked a long time, as I have, they become part of you.
Leroy Neiman / Artist
Different
Long
Roles
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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 / Artist
Ancient
Athlete
Captivated
Caught
Decades
Grace
Past
Years
Great Past Me
Ancient Greeks
Athletes
Great Me Past
Greeks
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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 / Artist
Another Way
Compliments You
Critics
Don't Care
Done
Needs
One Time
Compliments
Critic
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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 to visit. I love New York and Chicago - I studied there, and L.A. has the same people as New York.
Leroy Neiman / Artist
New York
Beautiful
Chicago
Cities
Fashionable
San Francisco
Smart
Love Women Beautiful
Women Are
Francisco
San
Visit
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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 / Artist
Home
Concerned
Effort
Facade
Paint
People
Surface
Wake Up
Efforts
Image
Presence
Reflects
Wake
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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.
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Art
Calling
Spiritual
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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 / Artist
Belief
Continuity
Spiritual
Life Great Moment
Counts
Depressed
Elated
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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 Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.
Leroy Neiman / Artist
Girl
True Love
Battle
Beautiful
Good Bye
Goodbye
Liberation
Streets
Throwing
Life Love History
Celebrated
Flowers
French
Fought
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It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis.
Leroy Neiman / Artist
Feet
Jazz
Portraits
Saws
Size
Stars
Big Band
Perform
Nearly
Completed
Current
Measures
Onto
Paintings
Recognizable
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