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 爱德华·史泰钦

艺术媒介一词的使用,至少可以说是误导人的,因为创造艺术作品的是艺术家而不是媒介。摄影艺术家通过对思想、思想、经验、洞见和理解的升华,赋予内容以形式。

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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

永远不要相信艺术家。相信这个故事。批评家的职责是把故事从作者手中拯救出来。

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

如果摄影模仿其他媒介,它永远不会成长。它必须独自行走;它必须是它自己。

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

摄影是解释人与人之间关系的主要力量。

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

我宁愿被称为记者也不愿被称为艺术家。