Edward Steichen Quotes

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• Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.
• 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…
• The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
• The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not…
• When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
• A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
• 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…
• I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself...
• Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.
• It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important…
• The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself and his surroundings.…
• A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.
• To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming…
• Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
• Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
• No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

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