Ben Shahn Quotes

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

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.

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

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.