"It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis."

-- LeRoy Neiman

#Stars Quotes #Feet Quotes #Portraits Quotes

“I started collecting art... simply because I wanted pictures to hang on the wall. I noticed what a difference a picture could make to the ambience of a room, and indeed how shifting work around could change a room's whole feeling.”
“Coming up with the answers quickly and accurately is what counts the most.”
“As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.”
“China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the whole issue of Korea and the stability of Korea, the whole issue of nuclear proliferation, the whole issue of providing free access to our ships that are operating in that area.”
“The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.”

Source : Arthur Bloch (2003). “Murphy's Law: The 26th Anniversary Edition: The 26th Anniversary Edition”, p.43, Penguin
“There is no limitation other than what you think.”

Source : Kenneth G. Mills (1996). “Change Your Standpoint, Change Your World”, Sun-Scape Publications
“The intelligence and ability of a colored person are in pretty direct proportion to the amount of white blood he has, and â€¦ most of the positions of leadership, influence, and prominence in the Negro race are held not by real Negroes but by Mulattoes, many of whom have very little Negro blood.”

Source : Madison Grant (2013). “The Conquest of a Continent”, p.298, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)
“Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame.”

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