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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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"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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Donna Grant

"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."

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Donna Grant

"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."

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Donna Grant

"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

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Donna Grant

"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture."

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Donna Grant

"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

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Donna Grant

"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

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Donna Grant

"I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay."

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Donna Grant

"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

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Donna Grant

"A Mediterranean city is really my culture."

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Donna Grant

"Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better."

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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'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
"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
"I didn't care where my works were published."

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Ben Shahn
"I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography."

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

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

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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
"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 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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