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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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"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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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

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"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."

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"Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going."

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"Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future."

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"Minutes remain the same length whether they are held against the span of years or minutes themselves. Yet, when minutes are held against themselves, they seem so terribly brief. Therefore, we'd be wise to celebrate life before minutes are all that's left."

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"Summer's lease hath all too short a date."

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"Life dances on the moment."

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"Forever, time is standing still. We are flying away with the wings of desire we call life."

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"Life is defined by time and seasons."

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"The right thing done at the wrong time will not bring about the right results."

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"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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"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."
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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."
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