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The first artistic skill of Woody Guthrie was actually drawing. Beginning as a sign painter who enjoyed using quality brushes and good paints, Woody developed the ability to do caricature-type sketches, almost cartoon-like in their quirky appearance. Adding drawings to his writings became as natural as breathing, and it was often noted that his writing and drawing and song-writing were almost one-and-the-same.
Many of his later sketches are expressionistic and cubist in style. They are often reminiscent of Picasso.
He once wrote a powerful delineation between painting and music, which possibly explains why his first loyalty was to music, even while recognizing the power of art. (His iconoclastic grammar exhibited in this quote is characteristic of his writing style. He knew better, but apparently felt that the "creative" use of grammar had a punch he wanted for emphasis.)
"A picture-you buy it once, and it bothers you for forty years, but with a song, you sing it out, and it soaks in people's ears and they all jump up and down and sing it with you. And then, when you quit singing it, it's gone, and you get a job singing it again. On top of that, you can sing out what you think....and there on the Texas plains, right in the dead center of the Dust Bowl....I seen there was plenty to make up songs about."
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