All Ben Shahn Quotes
- The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance. Artist
- 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… Any
- It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or… Imitate
- Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals. Art
- 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… Apprehension
- 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… Adequate
- The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man's loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation. Anarchic
- 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… Artist
- If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert… Alert
- A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of… Any
- Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel. Believe
- 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.… All
- The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained - trained by inferior and insincere visual representations. Eye
- An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him… Amateur
- Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died. Another Bureaucrat
- In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture. Camera
- I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at… Arranged
- I remember traveling around in Arkansas with Senator Robinson, and I told him what this little trick was. He felt very much part of it… Arkansas
- I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration… Accomplish
- I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing… Bit
- I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do. I did some… All
- I didn't care where my works were published. Care
- I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore. Anymore
- I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know. Asked
- In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before,… Called