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A good illustrator may draw from models but knows how to forget them.
Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)
Journalism today is for the most part gentlemanly and decorous, in so far as the relations among newspapers in the big cities are concerned.
Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)
With more and more governments, however crude and experimental, dedicated to industrial democracy and universal brotherhood, the era of peace and joy in living will come on earth.
Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)
Usually politics was my theme, varied now and then, on an off day, by some travesty on prevailing fads.
Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)
The flaring hoop-skirt had had its day, but complete coverage was still the fashion, woman's form being left to one's imagination.
Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)
Most of us who were cooperatively bringing out the Masses were agreed upon that. Some channel of protest must be safeguarded for those who had not been stampeded into dumb obeisance to the world's war-makers.
Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)
Although I knew that art schools could not make artists, I enjoyed the environment and the thought that I had an aim in life.
Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)
I do believe that man is destined to be released for a more ennobling life, when each one of us can go even farther with our talent or natural ability than we thought possible.
Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)
I had another year to go when I quit (high) school-but I felt I was getting dumber and dumber each term, and that it would be a waste of time to continue.
Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)
I made about ten drawings with a joke comment or dialogue for every one that I finished and sold. Thus I kept exercising my hand and eye.
Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)
The horror of unemployment is the final undoing of the worker. When he sees this confronting him he sells himself regardless of the intrinsic worth of his ability. Labor unions and collective bargaining arose to give him some show of power and dignity.
Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)
The term "Wobbly", said to have been fastened on the I. W. W. members in derision by a Los Angeles editor, had been adopted by them with enthusiasm.
Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)
After a few weeks I decided to graduate myself to the life classes of Kenyon Cox and Carroll Beckwith on the floor above, and strangely enough, no one objected; I just walked in as if I belonged.
Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)
the change is at hand-the old order is cracking. It has been said that 'the cure for democracy is more democracy'
Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)
So most of us pray not for riches, but for just enough to assure our living in normal comfort and perhaps a little extra for funeral expenses at the end.
Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)
I have always been sensitive to competent oratory, and from that year to the present time have heard all kinds-most of it I would say, as one of Plutarch's noble Grecians or Romans put it, "tall and lofty like a cypress tree, but bearing no fruit."
Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)