"It is an error common to many artists,……" — Edward Steichen
"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 work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity."
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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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Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.
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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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