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What crimes and follies are committed by the need for money! Most people live at high pressure . (October 11th)

— Art Young On My Way: Being the Book of Art Young in Text and Picture (1928)

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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.

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If he has illuminated the dark and serious subject with a suspicion of fun-it is meant to convey the hope he feels for all sinners like himself, that some relief of a slightly humorous nature may be found even in Hell.

Through Hell with Hiprah Hunt (1901)

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)

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