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

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Source : 1988 In the NewYork Times, 21 Jun. 85th birthday interview.

Al Hirschfeld

#Fall Quotes #Dark Quotes #Drawing Quotes

“It was the fashion of the times to attribute every remarkable event to the particular will of the Deity; the alterations of nature were connected, by an invisible chain, with the moral and metaphysical opinions of the human mind; and the most sagacious divines could distinguish, according to the colour of their respective prejudices, that the establishment of heresy tended to produce an earthquake, or that a deluge was the inevitable consequence of the progress of sin and error.”
“I believe in reincarnation of the soul.”
“Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of”
“You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.”

Source : Song: Storm
“Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.”
“The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.”
“Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.”
“There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.”

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