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Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes. I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all. Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle. For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office. My work is a game, a very serious game. Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then. The only actress they didn't test was Garbo. Must have been her accent. Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance. A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it. Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable. The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism. Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio. The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants. Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it. A man can be himself only so long as he is alone. With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others. It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character. Our trade opens to all the world. Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
- Sophocles

Edward Steichen

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

- Edward Steichen

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

- Edward Steichen

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

- 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.

- Edward Steichen

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

- Edward Steichen

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

- Edward Steichen

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen , born in Bivange, Luxembourg, was an American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator. He was the most frequently featured photographer in Alfred Stieglitz' groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its run from 1903 to 1917. Steichen also contributed the logo design and a custom typeface to the magazine. In partnership with Steiglitz, Steichen opened the "Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession", which was eventually known as 291, after its address. This gallery presented among the first American exhibitions of Henri Matisse, Auguste Rodin, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, and Constantin Brancusi. Serving in the US Army in World War I , he commanded significant units contributing to military photography. He was a photographer for the Condé Nast magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair from 1923-1938, and concurrently worked for many advertising agencies including J. Walter Thompson. During these years Steichen was regarded as the best known and highest paid photographer in the world. Steichen directed the war documentary The Fighting Lady, which won the 1945 Academy Award for Best Documentary. After World War II he was Director of the Department of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art until 1962. While at MoMA, in 1955 he curated and assembled the exhibit The Family of Man. The exhibit eventually traveled to sixty-nine countries, was seen by nine million people, and sold two and a half million copies of a companion book. In 1962, Steichen hired John Szarkowski to be his successor at the Museum of Modern Art.

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