Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes Volume 1

144 Savvy Sayin’s

I have a delightful book called Savvy Sayin’s – Lean & Meaty One-liners. It’s a collection of old time western lore and art. It’s full of wise and pithy sayings, and because of the clever “western” idiom, packs a special wallop. Funny how a lot of philosophy can be compacted into a simple colloquialism. Well, I thought, why can’t something like this be directed to drawing? You know me — I’ll try (almost) anything.

Here are a few excerpts from the book. Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell illustrated the book.

If you follow a new track, there ain’t no way of knowin’ If the man that made it knew where he was goin.’

In between ...