“The apprehension of... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually the result of... prolonged tuition.” ArtValuesBornResultsArt IsBuiltIntuitionIntuitiveApprehensionTuition Author:Ben Shahn
“The values that reside in art are anarchic, they are every man's loves and hates and his momentary divine revelation.” MenArtValuesHateDivineEvery ManRevelationsLove And HateMomentaryDivine Revelation 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
