Top 21 Edward Steichen Quotes

#1. If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of a day, you could probably pull out the most extraordinary photographic exhibition we've ever seen. On almost any subject. The trouble is to find the things.

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#2. Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

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#3. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

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#4. No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

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#5. When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

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#6. A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

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#7. Women-the greatest natural resource in the world today.

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#8. 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 fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

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#9. 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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#10. Every photograph is a fake from start to finish,

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#11. You know ... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at ...
The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.

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#12. Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.

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#13. 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 the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

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#14. A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.

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#15. A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

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#16. Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

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#17. 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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#18. Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

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#19. I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

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#20. 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 besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self.

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#21. 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 and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

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