Ben Shahn Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

11 Famous Quotes by Ben Shahn
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“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.”
Profession and professionals Quotes
“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.”
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“The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti”
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“His every line of writing was art. And yet such art was inseparable from its life content.”
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“Self Portrait among the Churchgoers, 1939,”
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“I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.”
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“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.”
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“I could flatter myself in thinking our photographs brought Roosevelt in in '36 overwhelmingly. But beyond that you can't measure it.”
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“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.”
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“I didn't care where my works were published.”
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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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