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It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material. — Ben Shahn

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society. — Ben Shahn

But Lou Anne, she understood the point of the book before she even read it. The one who was missing the point this time was me. — Kathryn Stockett

Form is the shape of content ... — Ben Shahn

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited. — Ben Shahn

Don't always try to be cool. The whole universe is cool. It's the warm bits that matter. — Matt Haig

Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died. — Ben Shahn

Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them continues to pay for it. — Peggy Hopkins Joyce

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

Who knows when a trenchant line becomes a human face? — Ben Shahn

In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture. — Ben Shahn

I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap. — Alistair Cooke

If a media is not criticizing the government, then that media is not a media but just a clown of the government! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

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

I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world. — Freddie Mercury

Done well, marital sexuality can be a supremely healing experience. — Gary L. Thomas

It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or a personality. — Ben Shahn

Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see. — Ben Shahn

The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man's loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation. — Ben Shahn

All art is based on non-conformity. — Ben Shahn

I love chaos ... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world. — Ben Shahn

The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained - trained by inferior and insincere visual representations. — Ben Shahn

Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel. — Ben Shahn

It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder. — 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

I didn't care where my works were published. — Ben Shahn

Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists. — Ben Shahn

Being an artist is not only what you do, but how you live your life. — Ben Shahn

The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance. — Ben Shahn

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding. — Joseph Addison

I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore. — Ben Shahn

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten. — Ben Shahn