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Top 20 LeRoy Neiman Quotes (2025 Update)

LeRoy Neiman Quote: “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.”

1. “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

LeRoy Neiman Quote: “The businessman says ‘If I don’t do it first, somebody else will.’ The artist says ‘If I don’t do it first, nobody else will.’”

2. “The businessman says ‘If I don’t do it first, somebody else will.’ The artist says ‘If I don’t do it first, nobody else will.’”

— LeRoy Neiman

LeRoy Neiman Quote: “The most important thing is to just do it. If I work at a higher level I have responsibility to do better than what I’ve done before. Sometimes the best happens – beyond possibility. Just do it. Can’t worry about it.”

3. “The most important thing is to just do it. If I work at a higher level I have responsibility to do better than what I’ve done before. Sometimes the best happens – beyond possibility. Just do it. Can’t worry about it.”

— LeRoy Neiman

LeRoy Neiman Quote: “The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they’re spectators, they’re not viewers.”

4. “The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they’re spectators, they’re not viewers.”

— LeRoy Neiman

LeRoy Neiman Quote: “You can’t take yourself too seriously.”

5. “You can’t take yourself too seriously.”

— LeRoy Neiman

LeRoy Neiman Quote: “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.’”

6. “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

LeRoy Neiman Quote: “I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably.”

7. “I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably.”

— LeRoy Neiman

LeRoy Neiman Quote: “I hold doors open for all the women. Men can open the doors for themselves.”

8. “I hold doors open for all the women. Men can open the doors for themselves.”

— LeRoy Neiman

LeRoy Neiman Quote: “Throughout my life, cigars have played different roles for me. They fit easily and well in the various stages and experiences Ive had – like a companion, almost. If youve smoked a long time, as I have, they become part of you.”

9. “Throughout my life, cigars have played different roles for me. They fit easily and well in the various stages and experiences Ive had – like a companion, almost. If youve smoked a long time, as I have, they become part of you.”

— LeRoy Neiman

LeRoy Neiman Quote: “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!”

10. “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

LeRoy Neiman Quote: “I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I’m still my intractable old self, for better or worse.”

11. “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

LeRoy Neiman Quote: “I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.”

12. “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

LeRoy Neiman Quote: “I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I’m a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.”

13. “I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I’m a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.”

— LeRoy Neiman

LeRoy Neiman Quote: “I love the passion you go through while you’re creating.”

14. “I love the passion you go through while you’re creating.”

— LeRoy Neiman

LeRoy Neiman Quote: “I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don’t think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.”

15. “I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don’t think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.”

— LeRoy Neiman

LeRoy Neiman Quote: “It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few...”

16. “It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few...”

— LeRoy Neiman

LeRoy Neiman Quote: “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.”

17. “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

LeRoy Neiman Quote: “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.”

18. “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

LeRoy Neiman Quote: “It’s not the act of arrogance to draw, it’s humbling – you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.”

19. “It’s not the act of arrogance to draw, it’s humbling – you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.”

— LeRoy Neiman

LeRoy Neiman Quote: “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.”

20. “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

LeRoy Neiman Quote: “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.”

21. “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

LeRoy Neiman Quote: “Imagination comes of not having things.”

22. “Imagination comes of not having things.”

— LeRoy Neiman

LeRoy Neiman Quote: “But ‘Playboy’ was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle.”

23. “But ‘Playboy’ was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle.”

— LeRoy Neiman

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