"I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none."

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Source : Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.48, Harvard University Press

Ben Shahn

#Believe Quotes #Artist Quotes #Labels Quotes

“Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Down with the traitors!”
“The most important thing when you're working with greatness is to learn from it, not challenge it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“When I was a kid, I was watching the movies my parents wanted to watch. I came from a working class family, not specifically educated, so we were watching popular movies. My dad liked cowboy movies, so we were watching cowboy movies. Some of them were amazing. It's a genre of movie I like very much.”

Source : "The General". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2015.
“He [Michael Jackson] would choose specific moments. They were art history books that I prefer. They were paintings that he prefers. It's this dance back and forth. We were halfway through the dance. He died.”
“Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?”
“When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.”

Source : "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.
“There is a tale...It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow.”
“We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For the vast majority of scientific contributions, if scientist X hadn't achieved it that year, scientist Y would have achieved the same result or something very similar soon thereafter.”

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