Author: LeRoy Neiman

Quotes

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

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

- LeRoy Neiman

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.

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.

- LeRoy Neiman

Imagination comes of not having things.

Imagination comes of not having things.

- LeRoy Neiman

I love the passion you go through while you're creating.

I love the passion you go through while you're creating.

- LeRoy Neiman

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

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

- LeRoy Neiman

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

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

- LeRoy Neiman

Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.

Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.

- LeRoy Neiman

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.

- LeRoy Neiman

'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.

'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.

- LeRoy Neiman

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