Al Hirschfeld famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Life is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along.
-- Al Hirschfeld

#Art #Life Is
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

#Moving #Character #Thinking
Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.
-- Al Hirschfeld

#Children #Artist #Crayon
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

#Believe #Thinking #Creative
The opening-night audience is mostly friends of the cast and backers of the show, and they cometo applaud their money.
-- Al Hirschfeld

#Night #Opening #Casts
Iwas a sculptor.Butthat'sreallydrawinga drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing.
-- Al Hirschfeld

#Fall #Dark #Drawing
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

#People #Way #Recognition
You learn your limitations and then you try to work within them.
-- Al Hirschfeld

#Trying #Limitation
Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.
-- Al Hirschfeld
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

#Drawing #Done #Feels
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

#Rain #Artist #Europe
Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.
-- Al Hirschfeld

#Creativity #Lines #Way

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