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'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself. LeRoy Neiman

Life Good Me Reality Matter Luxury Made Good Life Subject Subject Matter Itself Affluence Paintings Playboy

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

Love People Respond Most Them Viewers Who Paintings Spectators

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

Life Big Band Few Jazz Stars Difficult Saw Completed Favorite Recognizable Has-Been Possibly Onto Knew Perform Feet Big Band Been Current Size Hold Biggest Measures Many Paintings Nearly Portraits

You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings, you know, pending where the show was being held. You did submit work to be accepted. Once you were accepted that was it. You did your own selection of what went in. Lee Krasner

Work You Matter Space Three Submit Own Once Could Selection Know Accepted How How Much Were Did Send Being Where Whether Much Held Your Show Paintings Two

Monarchs, aristocrats, and other powerful and wealthy individuals have usually been happy to have themselves and their possessions and families immortalised in oil paintings and sculpture. But before the 20th century, such dynasts rarely commissioned artworks that set out to represent society as a whole. Linda Colley

Happy Before Society Other Possessions Out Wealthy Rarely Aristocrat Individuals Powerful Been Families Commissioned Represent Oil Century Themselves Sculpture Whole Paintings Monarchs Set

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half. Lorenz Hart

Half Books Tell Could Writers Never Painters Paintings

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating. Louis Leakey

Art Evidence Deteriorating French Tragic Sites Prehistoric Show Paintings

Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don't just want that time to dissolve, where I'm sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer. Lucas Neff

My parents are avid consumers of art, collectors of African American paintings, and have always gone to the theater. My mother has always been an activist, too. As long as I can remember, we were marching in lines. Lynn Nottage

In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings. Ma Jian

Art Group Joined Put Underground Exhibitions Beijing Paintings

For many years, I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii. Margaret Keane

I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person. Marion Bartoli

Draw Fingers Something Like Am Normal Very Person Produce Paintings

The narrative oftentimes is that everything that comes out of the hood is 'real,' and so I thought, 'I'll base it on the absurd, the not real. I'll twist the idea of real on its head and see if I can get away with it. I'll make paintings that come not from a place but through an abstract gaze.' Mark Bradford

When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what the director is about, and what the film is about. Mary Ellen Mark

You Director World Try Somebody Else Photographing About Almost Like Make Real Just Working Paintings Film Actor Interpret Museum

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely. Mary Leakey

Bone Gave Kinds Could Freely Yield Stone Information Paintings Amount

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well. Matt Gonzalez

Whenever I'm in Edinburgh, which I visit often, I always try to hop on a train to Kirkcaldy to visit the art gallery, where my grandfather was convenor for 36 years, to revisit the marvellous paintings from my childhood - as do other family members. Michael Portillo

Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge from the same source: the relentless dynamic toil of large populations of interconnected neurons. Miguel Nicolelis

Nature Human Nature Universe Symphonies Relentless Emerge Neurons Source Same Human Essentially Interconnected Dynamic Einstein Mozart Produced View Toil Large Paintings Expressions Ever

It is the single image, as used in a photograph or a painting - or the frame of a film - to which words have been added to enlarge the context. The method is not the same as that by which most paintings are named. It is closer in its performance to what dialogue does to a movie, to what the caption does to a good poster. Muriel Rukeyser

Good Words Single Painting Added Frame Photograph Poster Performance Named Most Does Context Dialogue Method Been Same Closer Movie Which Used Caption Paintings Film Image

The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world. Natasha Trethewey

Art Myself Me History Writing World Own Sense About Something My Own More Look Within Understand Making Gotten Continuum Place Interested Turned Help Paintings Imagery

It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out. Nate Lowman

Art Change People Value Too Other Out Perceive Shame Habits Because How Bummed Dictate Get Expensive Interesting Moving Meaning Meaning Of Gambling Paintings Start

I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the time just so I don't ever feel like I'm sitting around. Nikki Reed

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