If you’re going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art.
BEN SHAHN
I’ve been asked often what is the difference between an amateur and a professional artist, and I will tell you.
More Ben Shahn Quotes
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If you’re going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art.
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I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.
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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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Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality of an idea before its execution.
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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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How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black.
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The moving toward one’s inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but impels him on toward the more adequate image.
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