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Artist Quotes by Ben Shahn
- An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable…
- I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
- If you're going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art. A youngster told me…
- The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.
- The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.
- 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…
- 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.…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
- I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu
- Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or… — Erykah Badu