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Photography Quotes by Edward Steichen
- Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.
- 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…
- A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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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- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams
- Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — Ansel Adams
- A good photograph is knowing where to stand. — Ansel Adams
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams
- There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. — Ansel Adams