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  • Ben Shahn Quote - Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material… so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.
  • Ben Shahn Quote - Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material… so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.
  • Ben Shahn Quote - Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material… so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.
  • Ben Shahn Quote - Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material… so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.
  • Ben Shahn Quote - Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material… so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.
  • Ben Shahn Quote - 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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Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material… so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.

Ben Shahn

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Shahn Quote - Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

    Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

    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 - 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 - 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.

    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.

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

    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.

    BEN SHAHN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Shahn Quote - To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

    To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

    BEN SHAHN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Shahn Quote - I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

    I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

    BEN SHAHN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Shahn Quote - Nobody had ever done it before, deliberately. Now it’s called documentary, which I suppose is all right … We just took pictures that cried out to be taken.

    Nobody had ever done it before, deliberately. Now it’s called documentary, which I suppose is all right … We just took pictures that cried out to be taken.

    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 - 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.

    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.

    BEN SHAHN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Ben Shahn Quote - I confess that Roy [Stryker] was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn’t understand at the time.

    I confess that Roy [Stryker] was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn’t understand at the time.

    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.

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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 - 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.

    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.

    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 apprehension of… values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually the result of… prolonged tuition.

    The apprehension of… values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually the result of… prolonged tuition.

    BEN SHAHN