Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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The artist must operate on the assumption that the public consists in the highest order of individual; that he is civilized, cultured, and highly sensitive both to emotional and intellectual contexts. And while the whole public most certainly does not consist in that sort of individual, still the tendency of art is to create such a public - to lift the level of perceptivity, to increase and enrich the average individual's store of values... I believe that it is in a certain devotion to concepts of truth that we discover values.

Ben Shahn's Popular Quotes

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

- Ben Shahn

Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel.

- Ben Shahn

Form is the shape of content.

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

- Ben Shahn

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

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

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

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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.

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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…

- Ben Shahn