I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography. — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore. — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate. — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture. — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate. — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do.… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I remember traveling around in Arkansas with Senator Robinson, and I told him what this little trick was. He felt very much… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate. — Ben Shahn Copy Share
It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as… — Ben Shahn Copy Share
An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable… — Ben Shahn Copy Share
Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own… — Ben Shahn Copy Share
The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society. — Ben Shahn Copy Share
Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals. — Ben Shahn Copy Share
The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance. — Ben Shahn Copy Share
Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all… — Ben Shahn Copy Share
I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their… — Ben Shahn Copy Share
I remember traveling around in Arkansas with Senator Robinson, and I told him what this little trick was. He felt very much part of… — Ben Shahn Copy Share
I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate. — Ben Shahn Copy Share
We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was that it… — Ben Shahn Copy Share
