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We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#because #been #expressed #idea #merely

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#carry #done #far #favors #gratitude

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#also #around #express #foot #get

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#aesthetic #any #art #certain #exist

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#art #art work #ask #deep #fine

I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#been #call #doing #expressionist #first

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

#claim #copies #even #exclusive #paint

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

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