It could never happen for anyone they way it happened for me. It was all an accident.
AL HIRSCHFELDIt could never happen for anyone they way it happened for me. It was all an accident.
AL HIRSCHFELDLife is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along.
AL HIRSCHFELDI never know what to tell young people when they come here.
AL HIRSCHFELDTry to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It’s difficult to put into words.
AL HIRSCHFELDThe opening-night audience is mostly friends of the cast and backers of the show, and they cometo applaud their money.
AL HIRSCHFELDYou learn your limitations and then you try to work within them.
AL HIRSCHFELDYou 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.
AL HIRSCHFELDYou always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you’ve ever done… I am only interested in the present.
AL HIRSCHFELDWriters who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.
AL HIRSCHFELDArtists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.
AL HIRSCHFELDI believe everybody is creative, and everybody is talented.
AL HIRSCHFELDConsider 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 HIRSCHFELDLife isn’t a science. We make it up as we go.
AL HIRSCHFELDI just don’t think that everybody is disciplined. I think that’s a rare commodity.
AL HIRSCHFELDIwas a sculptor.Butthat’sreallydrawinga drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing.
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