LeRoy Neiman Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.”

“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.'”

“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.'”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Imagination comes of not having things.”

“It's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself.”

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