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Ben Shahn on Society

1898–1969 Lithuania

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Conformity is a mood and an atmosphere, a failure of hope or belief or rebellion.

Charles Eliot Norton Lectures (1956)

What is it about us, the public, and what is it about conformity itself that causes us all to require it of our neighbors and of our artists and then, with consummate fickleness, to forget those who fall into line and eternally celebrate those who do not?

Charles Eliot Norton Lectures (1956)

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