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LeRoy Neiman, born on June 8, 1921, was a renowned American artist known for his bold colors and vivid depictions. His works, which often captured scenes of sports, nightlife, and popular culture, have had a profound impact on the art world. Neiman's paintings are highly prized by museums and private collectors around the world.

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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.”

Art Said Young Artist Study Training Developing Crucial Art History Young Artists Scholastics History And Art

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“You can't take yourself too seriously.”

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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.”

Looks I Can Real Jobs Fighting Passion Events Excited Theatre Boxing Visuals Ballet Good Job Spectacular Boxers Sporting Events

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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.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Style Call Me Impressionists

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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.”

Film Artist Successful Comedy Television Series Including Roosters

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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.”

Has Beens Bigs Stars Difficult Saws Feet Painting Band Jazz Size Currents Portraits 80s Life Size

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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.”

Has Beens Sides Careers Wife Painting Models Lovely Reserved Limelight Lovely Wife

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“As I turn 91... I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished.”

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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.”

Ifs Important Sometimes Done Happens Levels Responsibility Worry Possibility Higher Importance Important Things Just Do It Higher Level

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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.”

People Trying Style Claims Sells Paint Agents Copies Representatives Publishers Exclusive Plagiarism

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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.”

People Feels Use Given Cases Subjects Talent Draws Arrogance Humbling Portraiture God Given Talents

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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.”

People Looks Persons Home Effort Development Concerned Wake Up Paint Surface Facade Portraiture

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“It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few.”

Has Beens Difficult Painting Selling

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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.”

Ifs Art Moments Spiritual Artist Spirituality Belief Process Calling Continuity Great Moments Doing Your Own Thing

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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.”

Ifs Wells Long Different Roles Stage Fit Long Time Various Companion Cigar

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“But 'Playboy' was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle.”

Liberating Playboy Throttle

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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.”

Firsts Said Wanted Beautiful Girl Streets Flower Battle Liberation Paris Goodbye Good Life Throwing Bye Good Bye Normandy

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“Imagination comes of not having things.”

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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.”

Giving Trying Doe Art Made Action Succeed Excellence

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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.”

Art Dream Artist Process Sleep Art Is Work Out Canvas Going To Sleep

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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.”

Eating My Favorite Recreation Beauty Of Life Ambience

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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.”

Years Firsts Past Energy Interest Five Saws Grace Movement Mets Ancient Athlete Caught Decades Greek Ancient Greek Captivated Great Athlete

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“I hold doors open for all the women. Men can open the doors for themselves.”

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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.”

Stills Self My Own Attitude Ambition Tunes Old Self

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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.”

Wells Important Artist Theory Believer

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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.'”

Ifs Way Needs Should Done Care Needed Critics Don't Care I Don't Care Compliment One Time Another Way Compliments You

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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.”

People Men World Looks Feelings Nice Subjects Excellence Nice Feeling

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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.'”

Ifs Firsts Artist Businessman

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“I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably.”

People Feels I Can

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“I love the passion you go through while you're creating.”

Passion Creating

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“The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.”

People Painting Viewers Spectators

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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.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Able Draws Drawing Painter Backbone

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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.”

People Knows Beautiful Cities New York Smart Chicago San Francisco Fashionable I Love New York

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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!”

Bigs Guy Changed Students Paint Abstract Shock Brooms Expressionism Abstract Expressionism Pollock

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About the Author

Born: June 8, 1921
Died: June 20, 2012
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 34

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