Ben Shahn Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

Ben Shahn quotes and sayings page 2 (artist). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 28 we have.

“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 as far as Hoboken at that time.”

“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.”

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

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

“Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see.”

“I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time.”