LeRoy Neiman Quotes
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
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
Quentin Blake
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero
But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
Origen
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
A. R. Ammons
Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
R. Lee Ermey
I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
Malcolm Gets
Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
M. J. Rose
Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
Vikram Chatwal
Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
Patricia MacLachlan
Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
Kailash Satyarthi
Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
Tarsem Singh
I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
Maddie Hasson
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
Gaston Bachelard
I love to read about what my love life is really like.
Jennifer Aniston
Work saved me. Literature saved me. It sounds corny but it's absolutely true. I was going in the wrong direction, but after the 9,000th night at the bar doing dope with a bunch of Dead Heads, I began to think there was something more.
T. C. Boyle
I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
Randy Houser
Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves.
J. G. Ballard
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
