LeRoy Neiman Quotes - Page 2

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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

  Stars, Feet, Saws

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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

  Successful, Artist, Roosters

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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

  Dream, Art, Sleep

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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

  Jobs, Real, Passion

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

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  People, Painting, Spectators

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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.

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  Long, Different, Roles

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

  LeRoy Neiman

  People, Feels, I Can

  "Sports Artist LeRoy Neiman, Official Painter of Five Olympics, Dies at Age 91", www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 20, 2012.

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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.

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  Art, Training, Study

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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.

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  Artist, Important, Theory

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