All art is based on non-conformity.
BEN SHAHN
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Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.
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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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Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.
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Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.
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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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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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