Ben Shahn Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• If you're going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art. A youngster told me recently that he was going to give himself a year to see if he has talent. A year! It takes a lifetime to see if you have it. Painting is total engagement.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Years, Giving

• It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.

  Ben Shahn

  Shapes, Painting, Affair

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.49, Harvard University Press

• It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or a personality.

  Ben Shahn

  Teaching, Voice, Personality

  BEN SHAHN (1957). “THE SHAPE OF CONTENT”

• If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

  Ben Shahn

  Thinking, Doe, Painting

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.38, Harvard University Press

• Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Class, Sculpture

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