It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or a personality.
BEN SHAHN
All art is based on non-conformity.
More Ben Shahn Quotes
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What is it about conformity itself that causes us all to require it of our neighbors and of our artists and then, with consummate fickleness, to forget those who fall into line and eternally celebrate those who do not?
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The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained – trained by inferior and insincere visual representations.
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The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.
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Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material… so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.
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An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
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A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward.
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To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.
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