"A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided……" — Edward Steichen
"A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words."
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Edward Steichen
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25 Quotes by Edward Steichen
Edward Steichen has 25 quotes on this site.
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Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.
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The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things…
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The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated…
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The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates…
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When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
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A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
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There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man…
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I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself...
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Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.
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It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be…
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The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring…
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To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something…
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More Accompanied Quotes
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
— Arnold Bennett
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All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong.…
— Theodore Bikel
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'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments,…
— Andrea Bocelli
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime…
— Albert Camus
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Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be…
— Corazon Aquino
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Hardships can deprive mortals of the power to ACT. But at the same time, hardships can be the means of…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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Sincerity is the same in a corner alone, as it is before the face of the world. It knows not…
— John Bunyan
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Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless…
— Rebecca West
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When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted…
— Leo Buscaglia
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EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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