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Top 20 Edward Steichen Quotes (2025 Update)

Edward Steichen Quote: “A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.”

1. “A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.”

— Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen Quote: “A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.”

2. “A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.”

— Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen Quote: “Art for art’s sake is dead, if it ever lived.”

3. “Art for art’s sake is dead, if it ever lived.”

— Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen Quote: “Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.”

4. “Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.”

— Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Edward Steichen Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Edward Steichen Quote: “Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.”

7. “Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.”

— Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen Quote: “Women-the greatest natural resource in the world today.”

8. “Women-the greatest natural resource in the world today.”

— Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen Quote: “Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.”

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

— Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen Quote: “The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.”

10. “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

Edward Steichen Quote: “When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.”

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

— Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen Quote: “The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them.”

12. “The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them.”

— Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen Quote: “Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.”

13. “Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.”

— Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Edward Steichen Quote: “No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.”

15. “No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.”

— Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Edward Steichen Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Edward Steichen Quote: “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.”

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

Edward Steichen Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Edward Steichen Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Edward Steichen Quote: “I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself...”

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

— Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen Quote: “Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.”

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

— Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen Quote: “A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.”

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

— Edward Steichen

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