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Imagination comes of not having things.

~Leroy Neiman

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Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.

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You can't take yourself too seriously.

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But 'Playboy' was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle.

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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.'

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I've zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.

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

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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.

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I love the passion you go through while you're creating.

~Leroy Neiman

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: June 8th, 1921

Died: June 20th, 2012

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