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Upon Quotes by Ben Shahn
- The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.
- Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.
- Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality of an idea…
- A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of…
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