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
artist style peculiar
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.
fall artist lines
What is it about conformity itself that causes us all to require it of our neighbors and of our artists and then, with consummate fickleness, to forget those who fall into line and eternally celebrate those who do not?
sunday artist differences
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.
men artist focus
The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.
artist conservative members
The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.
artist live-your-life being-an-artist
Being an artist is not only what you do, but how you live your life.
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.
art philosophy rights
All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system, no nation upon this continent, no continent, no science at all, no philosophy, and considerably fewer religions.
art hate men
The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man's loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation.
art numbers quality
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 psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness.
believe paint feels
Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel.
art class sculpture
Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.
eye vision representation
The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained - trained by inferior and insincere visual representations.