"There is only one optimist. He has been……" — Edward Steichen
"There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism."
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Edward Steichen
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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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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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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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