Top 36 Quotes About Edward Steichen
#1. A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
Edward Steichen
#2. It's unfair to be hard on yourself the first time you attempt something new. It is also unfair to expect others to meet such an unrealistic expectation.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#3. 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.
Edward Steichen
#5. I shall think soon that what people say is true: every woman is possessed by her own peculiar devil of curiosity
Nikolai Gogol
#6. At this point we hated each other as much as it was possible for two Irishmen to do-and that's quite a bit.
Kevin Hearne
#7. 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.
Edward Steichen
#8. As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
Maajid Nawaz
#9. A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.
Edward Steichen
#12. Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.
Edward Steichen
#13. As a street performer, I have learned that everybody wants to connect. And that usually, if you're a bit extraordinary, if you're not exactly of human appearance, then people will feel inclined to participate and to feel out loud. It's as though you made something resonate within them.
Natasha Tsakos
#14. 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.
Edward Steichen
#15. Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Edward Steichen
#16. 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.
Edward Steichen
#17. 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.
Edward Steichen
#18. 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.
Edward Steichen
#19. The digital world creates situation where there are no secrets anymore.
Angela Merkel
#20. As a human being, we have unlimited power and unlimited abilities, we just have to look for it.
Debasish Mridha
#21. By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#22. Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.
Edward Steichen
#23. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
Edward Steichen
#26. Go back? I don't know. I think hell's something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go. They're doing the same things they always did. They're doing it to themselves. That's hell.
Neil Gaiman
#27. When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
Edward Steichen
#28. 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.
Edward Steichen
#29. Brooms are better for sweeping than for flying," he said. "Besides, witches these days prefer airplanes. There's an in-flight snack and you arrive at your destination looking fabulous.
Z. Riddle
#30. A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.
Edward Steichen
#31. Women-the greatest natural resource in the world today.
Edward Steichen
#32. 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.
Edward Steichen
#33. Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their opposites, peace, economy, and riddance of public debt, believing that these were the high road to public as well as private prosperity and happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
#34. 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.
Edward Steichen
#35. But every time I go to church with you, I feel like everyone's trying to trap me in a room and convert me.' Which, in truth, they are. 'I want you, and your family, to love me for who I am,' he shouts, 'To let me be who I am.
Nicole Hardy
#36. But truly? In my secret heart, Jalan? What drives me is that I will not let that bitch win. She has raised her hand against me and mine. She will die by my own hands. There's no life everlasting for that one. No new world. This is a war, boy. My war. I am the Red Queen - and I do not lose. She
Mark Lawrence
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