"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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Source : "LeRoy Neiman dies aged 91", www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2012.

LeRoy Neiman

#Style Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Call Me Quotes

“In my opinion, it helps enormously to know why something is true, rather than being told it is true, for why should you believe me? Never believe anything on the authority of a single person but seek confirmation â€” and reason is the best confirmation.”

Source : "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 2 "Stylistic Questions", pp. 24-25), 2006.
“He didn't try to take the net off its hinges with that header.”
“Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.”
“They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though”
“I've tried many other styles of yoga, but nothing has ever given me the same centeredness, energy, and internal balance that I feel when practicing Ashtanga Yoga.”
“Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.”
“I like people talking about me, about my defense or what I'm doing. I like to see that, and that makes me work hard.”

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