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Decision Quote by Ben Shahn

“Of course I realize that photography is not the technical…” quote by Ben Shahn — Download Open image

“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.”

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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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