Quotes of Ben Shahn - somelinesforyou

“ I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ 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 by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ 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 by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before, to cover what he called Harvest in Ohio. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before, to cover what he called Harvest in Ohio. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ I didn't care where my works were published. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ I didn't care where my works were published. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ Now again, there are so many gadgets on cameras now that people abandon these simpler instruments for the more sure instruments. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ I could flatter myself in thinking our photographs brought Roosevelt in in '36 overwhelmingly. But beyond that you can't measure it. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before, to cover what he called Harvest in Ohio. ”

- Ben Shahn

“ I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do. I did some drawing and did a lot of photography but I was not part of Stryker's outfit at all. ”

- Ben Shahn
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