32 Quotes by Edward Steichen

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

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

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

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.

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

I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself...

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

The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself and his surroundings. and in this exploration of the realm of places, people and things, contrasts and relationships, Callahan is no respecter of conventional technical formula or code. His delicate sense of pattern is an integral part of his photography and not a thing by itself.

Women-the greatest natural resource in the world today.