Steichen Quotes

#1. Steichen bought my first photographs that I ever sold. He recognized the style from the school of Black Mountain. After that, it was about twenty years before I sold another photograph.

Robert Rauschenberg

#2. I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people.

Richard Avedon

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

Edward Steichen

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Donald Trump just pledged to be loyal to the Green Party, the Communist Party and Party Central, as long as they agree to be nice to that thing on his head. If not, all bets are off.

Michael R. Burch

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

Edward Steichen

#8. Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies.

Jon Lester

#9. 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

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

Edward Steichen

#11. I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life.

Dave Grohl

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

Edward Steichen

#13. On the other hand, I have no project. My project is to live until I die.

Esme Weijun Wang

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

Edward Steichen

#15. Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.

Dante Alighieri

#16. 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

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

Edward Steichen

#18. 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

#19. What we are we potray that in our deeds ...

Sai Kumar Nayak

#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.

Edward Steichen

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

Edward Steichen

#22. Then she appears, the fantasy which haunts my dreams. The creature who taunts me without having one Goddamn clue of the internal chaos she causes.

Sadie Grubor

#23. 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

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

Edward Steichen

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

Edward Steichen

#27. Ws 14:12 For the beginning of fornication is the devising of idols: and the invention of them is the corruption of life.

Various

#28. There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth."

Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, [...}

Patrick Rothfuss

#29. The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.

Harold Macmillan

#30. That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.

Rollie Fingers

#31. [U]nder even the most sincere human declarations there remained unarticulated layers of despair, fury, lies, and ignorance.

Sandor Marai

#32. A poem does not radiate from the name, but the name emanates from the poem.

Dejan Stojanovic

#33. He stole horses' you'll say to yourself, 'and he didn't care for women; and but for my pride I'd have been with him now.

Daphne Du Maurier

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

Edward Steichen

#35. I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.

Henri Matisse

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

Edward Steichen

#37. 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

#38. 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