#rap

Everything government touches turns to crap. ↗

— Ringo Starr

#everything #government #touches #turns

I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#book #called #even #grapes #i

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

— Edward Steichen

#artist #begins #blank #blank canvas #canvas

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

— Edward Steichen

#good #kind #made #perfect #photograph

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

#complicated thing #each #earth #explain #himself

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#arts #became #cheese #each #explain

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

#artist #content #creates #distillation #experience

There is no there there. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#grapes #growing #heavy #people #souls

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. ↗

— George Steiner

#biographies #domestic #gray #human #immense