78 Quotes by Ben Shahn

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.

I didn't care where my works were published.

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

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

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.

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.