Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died. Ben Shahn bureaucratdierealize Change image and share on social
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 askdealgreat Change image and share on social
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. Ben Shahn amateurenablejob Change image and share on social
I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography. Ben Shahn choicecontrolfeel Change image and share on social
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 interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture. Ben Shahn agoasiabegin share on social
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. Ben Shahn dealdegreegreat share on social
I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate. Ben Shahn findinadequateinterest Change image and share on social
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 avoid all tricks, angle shots were just horrible to us. Ben Shahn angleavoidcriticize Change image and share on social