Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn
Ben Shahnwas a Lithuanian-born American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content...
NationalityLithuanian
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth12 September 1898
CountryLithuania
editing numbers negative
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.
photography sketching found
I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.
art essence fundamentals
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 them.
art enlightenment may
Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.
artist conservative members
The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.
photography eye decision
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.
artist live-your-life being-an-artist
Being an artist is not only what you do, but how you live your life.
thinking doe painting
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.
jobs artist wife
An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
believe artist labels
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
world dull elements
I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.
war mean people
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.
pregnancy desire united-states
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.
believe paint feels
Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel.