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Ben Shahn

"Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited."

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Asa Don Brown

"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."

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Asa Don Brown

"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."

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Asa Don Brown

"Science is a proven concept with standards. Wisdom is the knowledge of life that we learn by living it."

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Asa Don Brown

"If we knew what is already there, there will be no need for research."

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Asa Don Brown

"One of the most important gifts that you can give to yourself is the gift of self-education, that is the best way to grow on constant basis."

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Asa Don Brown

"All knowledge that Science has acquired so far, has been through the concentration of the powers of the mind."

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Asa Don Brown

"If you begin to read, you find the answers you seek."

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Asa Don Brown

"Understand the concept of time and find ways to maximize it effectively."

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Asa Don Brown

"Why must ignorance be destroyed? Because it is the number one destroyer of the people of God."

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Asa Don Brown

"Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands."

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Ben Shahn
"So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggested that I take a trip around the country in the areas in which we worked to see what it's all about, and I tell you that was a revelation to me."

Nation

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Ben Shahn
"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."

People

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Ben Shahn
"Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited."

Knowledge

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Ben Shahn
"I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate."

Photography

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Ben Shahn
"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."

Decision-Making

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Ben Shahn
"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."

Art

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Ben Shahn
"Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture."

Time

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

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Ben Shahn
"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."

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Ben Shahn
"It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material."

Influence

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