“Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.” ArtWholeIndividualAudienceImagineArt IsIndividuality Book:The Shape of Content Source: The Shape of Content
“Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.” ArtArtistIndividualClassPaintingWorks Of ArtUniquenessPredictionsSculpture Author:Ben Shahn
“The artist must operate on the assumption that the public consists in the highest order of individual; that he is civilized, cultured, and highly sensitive both to emotional and intellectual contexts. And while the whole public most certainly does not consist in that sort of individual, still the tendency of art is to create such a public - to lift the level of perceptivity, to increase and enrich the average individual's store of values... I believe that it is in a certain devotion to concepts of truth that we discover values.” BelieveDoeArtStillsWholeArtistCertainValuesOrderIndividualI BelieveLevelsEmotionalHighestIntellectualArt IsConceptsIncreaseAverageStoresDevotionTendenciesLiftsSensitiveAssumptionCivilized Author:Ben Shahn
