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" But 'Playboy' was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle. "
LeRoy Neiman
Drawn
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Playboy
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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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" 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. "
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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. "
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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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" '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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" I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably. "
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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.' "
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" As I turn 91 this June 8th, I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished. "
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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. "
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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.' "
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" I've 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. "
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" Imagination comes of not having things. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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