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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.

Ben Shahn

It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.
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Affair Paint Painting Shapes Telling
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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Artist Jobs Wife
It may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness.
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Bearing Concept Degree Newness Number Possible
Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish.
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Department Jobs Photography Wish Work
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.
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Art Human Men Mision Reminder Today
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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Ideas Pronounce Thinking Weight
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.
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Art Class Prediction Sculpture
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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Journey Moving Self
Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.
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Blood Reputation War
The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained – trained by inferior and insincere visual representations.
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Eye Representation Vision Visual
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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Art Giving Years
Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel.
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Believe Feels Paint
The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.
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Artist Conservative Member
I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.
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Choices Felt Mediums Photography
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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Art Attitude Thinking
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.
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Artist Peculiar Style

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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