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From Quotes by Ben Shahn
- To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds…
- It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today,…
- Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.
- It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and…
- When a man returned from the field and we'd look at the work, we'd criticize each other very genuinely and never offensively. And we would…
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