Ben Shahn Quotes - Page 2

• Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.

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  Photography, Eye, Decision

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• Todo arte se basa en el inconformismo.

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  Arte, Conformidad, Arte Es

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• I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.

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  Photography, Sketching, Found

  "Ben Shahn".

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• I've been asked often what is the difference between an amateur and a professional artist, and I will tell you. An amateur artist is one who works all week at something else so he can paint on Saturday and Sunday. A professional artist is one whose wife works so he can paint all the time.

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  Sunday, Artist, Differences

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• Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

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  Art, Individuality, Imagine

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.38, Harvard University Press

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• Una obra de arte descansa sus méritos en las cualidades tradicionales. Puede constituir una hazaña notable en la artesanía, puede ser un estudio de búsqueda de los estados psicológicos, puede ser una mirada nostálgica hacia atrás, puede ser cualquiera de un número infinito de conceptos, ninguno de los cuales puede tener ninguna relación posible con su grado de novedad.

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  Art, Numbers, Quality

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• El contenido puede ser trivial. Pero no creo que nadie pueda pronunciarse ni sobre el peso ni sobre la trivialidad de una idea antes de su ejecución.

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  Thinking, Ideas, Weight

  BEN SHAHN (1957). “THE SHAPE OF CONTENT”

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• Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.

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  Art, Attitude, Thinking

  Ben Shahn (1967). “Ben Shahn: Paintings and Graphics : [exhibition] Santa Barbara Museum of Art, July 30, 1967-September 10, 1967; La Jolla Museum of Art, October 5, 1967-November 12, 1967 ; Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, December 3, 1967-January 3, 1968”

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• If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

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  Thinking, Doe, Painting

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.38, Harvard University Press

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• 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 his medium.

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  Artist, Style, Peculiar

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.51, Harvard University Press

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• Cada artista acude a la pintura o a la escultura porque allí puede saber que él, el individuo, trasciende todas las clases y se burla de todas las predicciones. En la obra de arte encuentra la confirmación de su singularidad.

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  Art, Class, Sculpture

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• Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish.

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  Photography, Jobs, Wish

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• Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

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  Fotografía

  Ben Shahn (1972). “Ben Shahn”

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• I confess that Roy [Stryker] 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.

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  Numbers, Editing, Negative

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

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  Photography, Choices, Mediums

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• El momento en que tenía el deseo de ir a los Estados Unidos no tenía un centavo. Fue en plena depresión. Yo no podía llegar tan lejos como Hoboken en ese momento.

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  Pregnancy, Desire, United States

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• How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black.

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  Sky, Yellow, Black

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• When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

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  Guerra, Media, Gente

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• I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.

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  People, Sake, Action

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• 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.

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  Skills, Special, Propaganda

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