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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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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it. ↗

— Lincoln Steffens

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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

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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

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I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age. ↗

— William Steig

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I didn't ever think of it as a social thing at the time. I took it as a good story. Maybe because I've always been kind of progressive so I never thought of it, you know. ↗

— Rod Steiger

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There is no there there. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's bad. I think the film could have been a lot better. ↗

— Rod Steiger

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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember. ↗

— Ben Stein

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I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money. ↗

— Ben Stein

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