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I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate. ↗

— Ben Shahn

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I remember traveling around in Arkansas with Senator Robinson, and I told him what this little trick was. He felt very much part of it and had me take pictures of people unbeknownst to them. ↗

— Ben Shahn

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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

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I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know. ↗

— Ben Shahn

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Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited. ↗

— Ben Shahn

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Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish. ↗

— Ben Shahn

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Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know. ↗

— Ben Shahn

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When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today. ↗

— Ben Shahn

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Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. ↗

— Merle Shain

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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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