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Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper th

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

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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

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Nature
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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

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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spiders web. – Pablo Picasso

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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. – Albert Camus

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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. – John Berger

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Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. – Socrates

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