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Art Quotes by Edward Steichen
- 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.
- Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.
- 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…
- 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.
- When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the…
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