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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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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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Photography
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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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Edward Steichen
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. – Al Capp

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I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, Wheres the art? They werent doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had… maybe I could even quit renting. – P. J. ORourke

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Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding. – Gian Carlo Menotti

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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. – Igor Stravinsky

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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end. – G. K. Chesterton

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