Ben Shahn Quotes

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, murals, propaganda in general, you know.

Ben Shahn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
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  • Birth: September 12, 1898 - March 14, 1969

Topics

YouKnowSkillsSpecialPropaganda

Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.

Jerry Cantrell

WorkHard WorkSuccessLuckYou

If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.

Meghan Daum

FantasyGreyShadesRomanceAnything

When people think about CNN today, they think about our television coverage, politics, and Donald Trump. And I get it; I'm not suggesting that's wrong. But I think there is a much bigger story going on at CNN.

Jeff Zucker

TodayPoliticsPeopleStoryThink

Cranking the Auto-Tune is so easy to do that there's almost no systemic resistance to trying it. So when someone's stuck for an idea, that's what they do. I mean, to the extent that it's been embraced by an entire idiom of club music and culture.

Steve Albini

MusicCultureSomeoneTryingEasy

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

Robert Burns

FriendWorldWithoutUsBeforeWide

Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!

Robert Browning

TimeTogetherLovedPlaceNever

Everything is not on a plate for you at Saint Martins - it's about personality, about working out how to do it.

Louise Wilson

PersonalityYouEverythingOutPlate

Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing something that is so selfish. I love doing it, but it is never something that feels like it's going to change or save the world.

Jason Alexander

WorkLoveChangeWorldSelfish

I started playing guitar by the time I was 9.

Jon Pardi

TimeGuitarPlayingStarted

I watched a couple of films I was in and thought, 'Those are pretty close to what we wanted them to be. I feel actually weirdly OK with it all. I can still see flaws in what I'm doing, but I think I delivered. I think I improved the film with my presence.'

Domhnall Gleeson

ThinkThoughtFeelDoingFlawsSee

Just stay real and stay a real person.

Brandon Thomas

PersonRealStayJustReal Person

Bronze makes the most complex waveforms of any substance known to man. It creates these vibrations that will just crack your skull.

Brian Reitzell

ManWillSkullComplexCrackJust

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