LeRoy Neiman Quotes

I've felt that in the past, where I just felt like I had to keep drawing in the same way to maintain this sameness and rhythm throughout an entire book, and it was not really necessary.

Movie-wise, there is nothing I wouldn't do again. It's not possible to make one perfect movie every time.

Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.

It can be boring to see the same players winning every time.

I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.

I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working on a show with Chita Rivera. It keeps you on your toes because it's different every time.

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he's working with, but for the audience. If you just go out and deliver the same dish every time... it's meat loaf again... you'd get bored. I'd get bored.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

The more change, the more it's the same thing.

You're not going to reinvent the wheel every time you go out, because that would disappoint the audience.

I don't want to write the same song over and over again.

I'm a perfectionist, and I like to do each scene slightly differently every time.

Be it in the movies I make or on stage, I think it's a trap to keep doing the same thing over and over again.

The world needs more standardization, less innovation.

As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.