Hirschfeld Quotes & Sayings

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

Without choice, there can be no service, love, or value to your actions. Remember that. — D.R. Ranshaw

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

In some ways, I feel like the strength of animation is in its simplicity and caricature, and in reduction. It's like an Al Hirschfeld caricature, where he'll use, like, three lines, and he'll capture the likeness of someone so strongly that it looks more like them than a photograph. I think animation has that same power of reduction. — Pete Docter

Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it. — Krist Novoselic

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

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

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

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

I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts. — Jonathan Haidt

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

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections. — Magnus Hirschfeld

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

This is where it matters the most. This is where lives are made, in these moments when you can choose whether or not to say "I Can't" or "I Can." It is a choice that will either make or break you for life. — Jillian Michaels

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

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

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

I think that you've got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way. — Thomas Keller

Hush Hattie!" I said, intoxicated with my success. "I don't want to go to my room. Everyone must know I shan't marry the prince." I ran to the door to our street, opened it, and called out into the night, "I shan't marry the prince." I turned back into the hall and ran to Char and threw my arms about his neck. "I shan't marry you." I kissed his cheek. He was safe from me. — Gail Carson Levine

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

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

I never have, above my signature, announced anything that I did not prove first. That is the reason why no statement of mine was ever contradicted, and I do not think it will be, because whenever I publish something I go through it first by experiment, then from experiment I calculate, and when I have the theory and practice meet I announce the results. — Nikola Tesla

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

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

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

If you think you've seen it all, put on your sunglasses, because you're about to be surprised. — Vannetta Chapman

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

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