Imagination Comes Of Not Having Things.

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.

Eating Is One Of The Great Beauties In Life. One Of My Favorite Recreations... Eating With Friends, The Service, The Ambience.

When I Paint, I Seriously Consider The Public Presence Of A Person - The Surface Facade. I Am Less Concerned With How People Look When They Wake Up Or How They Act At Home. A Person's Public Presence Reflects His Own Efforts At Image Development.

I Guess I Created Leroy Neiman. Nobody Else Told Me How To Do It. Well, I'm A Believer In The Theory That The Artist Is As Important As His Work.

It Has Been Difficult To Hold Onto Many Paintings But I Have Retained A Few.