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Arise Quote by Ben Shahn

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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.”

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I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.

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It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as…

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An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable…

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Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own…

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The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

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Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

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

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The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.

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Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all…

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All art is based on non-conformity.

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I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their…

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I remember traveling around in Arkansas with Senator Robinson, and I told him what this little trick was. He felt very much part of…

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Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

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An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

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