Warren MacKenzie Quotes About Army

Quotes about: Army

• In the middle of my second year at school, in 1943, I got drafted into the army, was gone for three years, and when I came back, I tried to get into the painting classes which I wanted, but because of all the returned GIs [the GI Bill], everyone was in school and the classes were all full. So I looked at the catalogue and found that there was a ceramic class offered and that there was space in that. I registered for a ceramic class and some drawing classes.

  Warren MacKenzie

  School, Army, Years

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• I got drafted into the army and by pure chance was pushed into a silk-screen shop at this camp where I was, because they could not get training posters fast enough out of a central source in Washington, D.C. So they set up their own shop to print training posters: how to dismantle a machine gun, etc.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Army, Gun, Training

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• [I made in army] all sorts of dumb things, but it did teach me a lot about the silk-screen process.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Army, Dumb, Made

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

• That [silk-screen process experience] carried over when I returned from the Army and took more graphic classes at the Institute. And Alix [MacKenzie] and I actually began to produce a line of textiles, which had silk-screen patterns on them.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Army, Class, Textiles

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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