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“If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” Farewell at 90 to the first black South African Archbishop, DESMOND TUTU, anti-apartheid and human rights activist.
#desmondtutu #desmondtutubirthday #apartheid #southafrica #pencilsketch
“The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.”
Happy belated Birthday (December 18) LIV ULLMAN #livullman #keithhenrybrown #persona #ingmarberman #swedish #autumnsonata #scenesfromamarriage #criesandwhispers @painted.words
“I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... (what) they were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques.” Happy Birthday, composer / trumpeter DONALD BYRD
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great" Happy Birthday, MARK TWAIN (Samuel Clemons) #sketchbook#pencilsketch #marktwain #samuelclemons #happybirthday#iamtheleopard
“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.” Happy Birthday, writer ALAN MOORE #alanmoore #vforvendetta #watchmen
Sketchbook: Portrait Of A Man Who Would Gladly Eat Your Face. Of all the Universal monsters, The Wolfman was the least scary to me but my favorite. Lon Chaney Jr.'s makeup seemed very human like, more the face of a heavily bearded man than a creature of the night. @sketchbook
“If you were going to share the stage or the studio with Brother Jack, you had to have game, and you had to be at the top of it.” -George Benson Happy Birthday, Soul jazz organist “BROTHER" JACK MCDUFF #brotherjackmcduff #captainjackmcduff #penandinkandwatercolor
“They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”
Happy 101th Birthday, CHARLIE “Bird” PARKER #charlieparker #charliebirdparker #milesdavis
“I never liked Elvis until I met Keith Richards,” The only rock ’n’ roll player I ever liked when I was young was Fats Domino.” Goodnight🌙 CHARLIE WATTS @charliewattsofficial @therollingstones @mickjagger @officialkeef #keithhenrybrown🎨 #iamtheleopard #pencilportrait
“Singing is the only instrument you use your body to do and nothing else—you don’t have an extension”. Happy Birthday, singer / songwriter / guitarist PHOEBE SNOW. If you don’t know the name you would definitely know her four-octave voice.