#de

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. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#basically #been #career #continues #few

'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

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on! ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#academically #big #broom #changed #could

When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the farmhouse. ↗

— Ben Nelson

#choose #come #comes #decisions #down

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. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#arts #because #belief #calling #continuity

When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#am #concerned #consider #development #efforts

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska. ↗

— Ben Nelson

#good #nebraska #president #visits

One of the great privileges of being a part of the Senate, it being the greatest deliberative body in the world, is out of the discussions of ideas, hopefully truth can ultimately be achieved. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#being #body #discussions #great #greatest

The security of our nation depends on the men and women who are willing to sacrifice their safety, and possibly their lives, to protect the freedoms the rest of us enjoy. ↗

— Ben Nelson

#enjoy #freedoms #lives #men #men and women

When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote. ↗

— Ben Nelson

#george #george washington #national #president #vote