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  • Ben Shahn Quote - When you talk about war on poverty it doesn’t mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.
  • Ben Shahn Quote - When you talk about war on poverty it doesn’t mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.
  • Ben Shahn Quote - When you talk about war on poverty it doesn’t mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.
  • Ben Shahn Quote - When you talk about war on poverty it doesn’t mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.
  • Ben Shahn Quote - When you talk about war on poverty it doesn’t mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.
  • Ben Shahn Quote - When you talk about war on poverty it doesn’t mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.
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When you talk about war on poverty it doesn’t mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Shahn Quote - Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel.

    Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel.

    BEN SHAHN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Shahn Quote - Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

    Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

    BEN SHAHN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Shahn Quote - Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.

    Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.

    BEN SHAHN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Shahn Quote - The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.

    The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.

    BEN SHAHN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Shahn Quote - If you’re going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art.

    If you’re going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art.

    BEN SHAHN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Shahn Quote - When you talk about war on poverty it doesn’t mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

    When you talk about war on poverty it doesn’t mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

    BEN SHAHN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Shahn Quote - Personal style, be it that of Michelangelo, or that of Tintoretto… has always been that peculiar personal rapport which has developed between an artist and his medium.

    Personal style, be it that of Michelangelo, or that of Tintoretto… has always been that peculiar personal rapport which has developed between an artist and his medium.

    BEN SHAHN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Shahn Quote - I love chaos…. It’s the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

    I love chaos…. It’s the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

    BEN SHAHN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Shahn Quote - I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.

    I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.

    BEN SHAHN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Shahn Quote - 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.

    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.

    BEN SHAHN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Shahn Quote - Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.

    Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.

    BEN SHAHN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Shahn Quote - The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained – trained by inferior and insincere visual representations.

    The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained – trained by inferior and insincere visual representations.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Shahn Quote - All art is based on nonconformity … Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system, no nation upon this continent, no continent, no science at all, no philosophy, and considerably fewer religions.

    All art is based on nonconformity … Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system, no nation upon this continent, no continent, no science at all, no philosophy, and considerably fewer religions.

    BEN SHAHN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Shahn Quote - I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.

    I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.

    BEN SHAHN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Shahn Quote - The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man’s loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation.

    The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man’s loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation.

    BEN SHAHN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Shahn Quote - If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

    If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

    BEN SHAHN