LeRoy Neiman

Artist

1921-06-08

Quotes by LeRoy Neiman

• 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!

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• The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers.

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

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