Best quotes by LeRoy Neiman on Life
Checkout quotes by LeRoy Neiman on Life
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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‟ It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.
- LeRoy Neiman
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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.
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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
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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