Three Quotes by Al Hirschfeld

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

— Al Hirschfeld

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

— Al Hirschfeld

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

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…

— Al Hirschfeld

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

— Al Hirschfeld

I never know what to tell young people when they come here. It could never happen for anyone they way it happened for me.…

— Al Hirschfeld

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

— Al Hirschfeld

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

— Al Hirschfeld

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…

— Al Hirschfeld

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

— Al Hirschfeld

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

— 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