LeRoy Neiman Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 8, 1921 - June 20, 2012

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I started out trying to play more straight-ahead jazz. I went to Berklee in the early '60s when it was a brand new school, and so there was no fusion music. There wasn't a lot of mixing together of different kinds of music at that time, so jazz was kind of pure jazz.

John Abercrombie

MusicTimeTogetherSchoolBrand

President Donald Trump's policies are not global but inward-looking.

Anand Mahindra

PresidentGlobalTrumpPolicies

I've always said that God will somehow enlighten me.

Rodrigo Duterte

GodMeSaidWillAlwaysEnlighten

Less is more.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

ArchitectureMoreLess Is MoreLess

I knew I wasn't the sort of person who could do a full-time job and write in the evening and at weekends.

Lisa Jewell

JobEveningPersonWriteWeekends

Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs.

Claire Tomalin

SearchLettersSignsMovementTraces

Sly Stone made such a huge contribution to the good feeling in the universe, and I love him as a singer.

Boy George

LoveGoodUniverseStoneFeeling

I learned Tae Kwon Do and gymnastics and I have a trainer.

Ashley Scott

TrainerGymnasticsLearned

I think of myself as a Hollywood hillbilly, but I'm sick of all these questions people ask about Alabama. 'Do you have an outhouse?' 'Is there a lot of inbreeding in your family?' They think all Southerners don't have computers and TV sets and that we're all still living in 1862.

Sunny Mabrey

FamilyMyselfPeopleSickThinkYou

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.

Peter Doig

MoneyPaintingThinkBetterHelp

Years ago, when I first started wearing hair extensions, I would get mail from young girls, or young girls would come up to me and they would say, 'Tyra you have the most beautiful hair, like I could never grow hair like that!' And I would say 'Child, this is a weave!'

Tyra Banks

BeautifulChildMeHairGrowYou

Sometimes, when you act with someone in an intimate capacity, you have to ask vulnerable questions to speed up intimacy - but that's artificial.

Timothee Chalamet

SomeoneQuestionsSpeedYouIntimacy

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