"Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but……" — Ben Shahn
"Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died."
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56 Quotes by Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn has 56 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this…
- Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time…
- Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.
- Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation…
- I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did…
- To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals…
- An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone…
- The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in…
- I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
- How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black.
- All art is based on non-conformity.
- I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.