Hirschfeld Quotes

#1. I've got a good man. He takes care of me. I don't have to be scared of anything because I know he will kick every ass ... disrespect him and you've got a problem.

Whitney Houston

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

Al Hirschfeld

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.

Magnus Hirschfeld

#6. Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Magnus Hirschfeld

#7. He who does not tire, tires adversity.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#8. The spirits of Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld and Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebbing waft through the text to lend 'The Third Sex' an air of scientific authority.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#9. The more we delve into the essence of personality, the more we learn that in this world, certainly rich with natural beauty and things worthy of seeing, nothing is more attractive and worthier of knowing and experiencing than people.

Magnus Hirschfeld

#10. 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

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

Steve Breen

#12. The woman who needs to be liberated most is the woman in every man, and the man who needs to be liberated most is the man in every woman

Magnus Hirschfeld

#13. 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

#14. It's why I am a writer...To avoid the narrow mesh of Mrs Winterson's story I had to be able to tell my own.

Jeanette Winterson

#15. One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.

Stephen Hawking

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

Al Hirschfeld

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

Al Hirschfeld

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

Al Hirschfeld

#19. I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

Josephine Baker

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

Al Hirschfeld

#21. 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.

Al Hirschfeld

#22. Speaking of line, what artist of line was ever able to find more depth and volume than Hirschfeld? He was an illustrator and a caricaturist, but first and foremost, an artist.

Billy Cannon

#23. He wondered how many other people were lucky enough to have an entire universe of need satisfied by one blond-haired man.

John Wiltshire

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

Al Hirschfeld

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

Al Hirschfeld

#26. People, you have six senses! The last one is common! Use it!

Michael Ruhlman

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

Al Hirschfeld