#self

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#end #itself #means #socialism

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#am #convinced #gives #i #i am

I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#attitudes #better #i #i always #intractable

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

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

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

Take your work seriously and yourself lightly. ↗

— Bob Nelson

#seriously #take #work #your #yourself

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. ↗

— Harriet Nelson

#offended #them #who #you #yourself

I love stretching myself musically. ↗

— Liz Phair

#i love #love #musically #myself #stretching