Edward Steichen

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

— Edward Steichen

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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

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

— Edward Steichen

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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

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

— Edward Steichen

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

— Edward Steichen

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No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. ↗

— Edward Steichen

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Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things. ↗

— Edward Steichen

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Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. ↗

— Edward Steichen

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