It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder.
BEN SHAHN
An amateur artist is one who works all week at something else so he can paint on Saturday and Sunday. A professional artist is one whose wife works so he can paint all the time.
More Ben Shahn Quotes
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How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black.
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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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Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.
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Being an artist is not only what you do, but how you live your life.
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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
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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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