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Ben Shahn Quotes

I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Love Myself Look Still Anymore

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Envy Watch Only Who Many Few

The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.

John Lothrop Motley

Rise Events Modern Republic Must

The camera lens or the television camera is still just a proscenium arch. And as a great old character actor once said to me, wherever you're acting, you reach up and take hold of the proscenium arch, and you pull it down around your shoulders.

Character Great Me Camera Acting

Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.

History I Am Zombie Nerd Before Am

The past has to inform the present.

Past Present Inform

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

Fear People Friends Strangers More

Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage.

Woman I Am Happy Me Plants Energy

The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior intelligence, language and self-awareness: the rights of the superior being trump those of the inferior.

Michael Shermer

Food Intelligence Language Animals

There's a part of you - the born-again part, your spirit - that's dead to sin. That's why it bothers you now when you sin. The 'wilderness' part of you - your soul - is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

Soul Mind Wilderness Stubborn You

New York City has the most beautiful women.

Women Beautiful New York City New

What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a good or bad.

Work Good You Artist Bad Interest

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Father Man Will Others Cruel Misery

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