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Edward Steichen

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

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Donna Grant

"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

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Donna Grant

"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."

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Donna Grant

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

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Donna Grant

"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."

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Donna Grant

"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."

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Donna Grant

"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."

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Donna Grant

"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."

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Donna Grant

"Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments."

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Donna Grant

"It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth."

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Donna Grant

"Keep talking about moving toxic wastes, but never let it cross your mind to quit producing them. Keep Judging yourselves in Manson. Don't look in the mirror. You will serve the Earth as much as she serves you or you will commit suicide."

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Edward Steichen
"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."

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Edward Steichen
"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."

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

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Edward Steichen
"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man."

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Edward Steichen
"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."

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

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Edward Steichen
"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."

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Edward Steichen
"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."

Photography

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

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

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