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28 quotes by Ben Shahn

Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969) was 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.
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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... →

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I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.

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I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement... →

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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... →

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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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In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before, to cover what he called... →

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Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get... →

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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... →

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When a man returned from the field and we'd look at the work, we'd criticize each other very genuinely and never offensively. And we would... →

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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... →

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

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

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I didn't care where my works were published.

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