Ben Shahn Quotes
Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see.
Ben Shahn
Quotes to Explore
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
Walter Kirn
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
Naval Ravikant
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I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.
Taya Kyle
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
Victoria Wood
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Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.
Malcolm Fraser
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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
E. T. Bell
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The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something... Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it and every time I see something, I think about the person who made it... Nothing is important... so everything is important.
Keith Haring
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I'm a third-generation American, so I like that American-looking, Northwestern style with a flannel or jean shirt.
Cody Horn
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It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands,Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream,And times and things, as in that vision, seemKeeping along it their eternal stands.
Leigh Hunt
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The French bourgeois doesn’t dislike shit, provided it is served up to him at the right time.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.
Mary Renault
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Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see.
Ben Shahn
