Art Quote by Ben Shahn Download Open image “All art is based on non-conformity.” — Ben Shahn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Conformity Non conformity
All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system,… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends on individual… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
The complete and definitive work of art is created beyond one's individuality... ...The universal transcends such a level. Mere spontaneity has never created a… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
“The nature of a work of art is to be not a part, nor yet a copy of the real world but a world… — A.C. Bradley Copy Share Image
Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment. — Helene Grimaud 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society. — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals. — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance. — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate. — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
