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 had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here.… — 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,… — 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
That nature only is good when it shall not do unto another whatever is not good for its own self — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself and his… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at... The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
