Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants. — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth. — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration. — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields and meadows, by babbling brooks and shady woods - in short, a machine that will discriminately select its subject and, by means of a skillful arrangement of springs and screws, compose its motif, expose the plate, develop, print,… — Edward Steichen Copy Share
The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them. On the one side, we over-intellectualize everything; on the other hand, we are over-mechanized. We can understand the danger of the atomic bomb, but the danger of our misunderstanding the meaning… — Edward Steichen Copy Share
