#graph

I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do. I did some drawing and did a lot of photography but I was not part of Stryker's outfit at all. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#camera #did #draw #drawing #enough

I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#i #look #love #myself #photographs

I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#called #department #general #i #know

I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#art #association #college #doing #exhibition

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#limited #now #photography #terribly

Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#begin #came #department #i #i came

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#decision #eye #facility #going #i

I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don't have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#asks #autograph #bag #because #carry

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively. ↗

— William Shatner

#choreographer #creatively #director #politically

The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#almost #always #best #last #left