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What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think. ↗

— Denis Thatcher

#companionship #course #happy #happy life #i

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. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#beautiful #celebrated #changing #discovered #first

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#art #art history #artist #artists #crucial

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

— LeRoy Neiman

#go #i #i love #love #passion

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

#another #another way #any #care #compliments

I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over the years. That's what the ancient Greeks first saw and that's what caught my interest. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

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I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason. ↗

— Nelly

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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.' ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

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No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#art #artist #canvas #dream #dreams

'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

#good #good life #itself #life #luxury