Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

- Edward Steichen

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. Bet…

- Edward Steichen

Every photograph is a fake from start to finish.

- Edward Steichen

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 the…

- Edward Steichen

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

- Edward Steichen

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

- Edward Steichen

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

- Edward Steichen

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

- Edward Steichen

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

- Edward Steichen