"Art for art's sake is dead, if it…" — Edward Steichen
"Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived."
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25 Quotes by Edward Steichen
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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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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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A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.
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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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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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