It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words. — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited,… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made. — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face. — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself... — 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
