[Neiman is famous] because millions of people watch sports programs, read Playboy and will take any amount of glib ab-ex slather so long as it adorns a recognisable and pert pair of jugs.

—Art critic Robert Hughes

The archetypical hack…With his ever-present cigar and enormous mustache, he was a cliché of the bon vivant and a bad artist in every way

All frosting, no cake.

—Ken Johnson, The New York Times, 2012


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