Al Hirschfeld Quotes

#1. My favorite caricaturist is Al Hirschfeld. I'm always trying to give my caricatures that streamlined quality - and I often fall short.

Steve Breen

#2. When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animation.

Brad Bird

#3. Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

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#4. You learn your limitations and then you try to work within them.

Al Hirschfeld

#5. Iwas a sculptor.Butthat'sreallydrawinga drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing.

Al Hirschfeld

#6. I never know what to tell young people when they come here. It could never happen for anyone they way it happened for me. It was all an accident.

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#7. Life is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along.

Al Hirschfeld

#8. I love dressing up. It's the best part of being a girl, I think.

Emma Roberts

#9. Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

Al Hirschfeld

#10. The opening-night audience is mostly friends of the cast and backers of the show, and they cometo applaud their money.

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#11. You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done ... I am only interested in the present.

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#12. I believe everybody is creative, and everybody is talented.
I just don't think that everybody is disciplined.
I think that's a rare commodity.

Al Hirschfeld

#13. He had a weary air of responsibility about him, both bureaucratic and mythological, like someone doomed to guard a cave for all eternity. I

Emma Cline

#14. Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.

Alan Keyes

#15. Healing from childhood abuse is not going mad, it is going sane.

Jan Hawkins

#16. Like Free People, the Urban brand is planning to grow by expanding product assortments, expanding the brand reach and by improved marketing.

Richard Hayne

#17. How futile and even arrogant for us to seek to determine what God is doing in a particular event or circumstance.

Jerry Bridges

#18. You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets color and subtle washes of tone. Most great graphic artists come from areas with prevalent sun, where line and shadow are paramount.

Al Hirschfeld

#19. Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each drawing as a problem that did not exist before, and then try to solve that problem to the best of your ability. That i what caricature is all about

Al Hirschfeld

#20. Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

Al Hirschfeld