American - Artist | June 8, 1921 - June 20, 2012
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.
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You can't take yourself too seriously.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.
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Imagination comes of not having things.
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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.
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I love the passion you go through while you're creating.
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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.
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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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