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

- 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

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 pro…

- 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 always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.

- 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 begets color and subtle…

- Al Hirschfeld

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

- Al Hirschfeld

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

- Al Hirschfeld