The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.
Ben ShahnI became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate.
Ben ShahnIt is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder.
Ben Shahn