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Ben Shahn

"In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture."

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Donna Grant

"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

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Donna Grant

"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

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Donna Grant

"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

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Donna Grant

"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

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Donna Grant

"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

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Donna Grant

"No holidays, no country."

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Donna Grant

"I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone."

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Donna Grant

"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

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Donna Grant

"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."

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Donna Grant

"Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end."

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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."

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Ben Shahn
"I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York."

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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."

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Ben Shahn
"In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before, to cover what he called Harvest in Ohio."

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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
"I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that."

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Ben Shahn
"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."

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Ben Shahn
"In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture."

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

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Ben Shahn
"I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time."

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