I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

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.

I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably.

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.

I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.