#ife

It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#best #excellence #feeling #go #life

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

— LeRoy Neiman

#been #best #fun #had #i

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

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

I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill. ↗

— Ben Nelson

#bill #energy #energy bill #i #look

Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life. ↗

— Gaylord Nelson

#great #his #life #roosevelt #teddy

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#death #disgrace #dreadful #envied #glorious

Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life. ↗