Alfred Stieglitz Quotes

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• In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography

  Alfred Stieglitz, J. Paul Getty Museum (1995). “Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.82, Getty Publications

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• Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Light, Photographer

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• For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Giving, Personality, Special

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• Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Passion, Photographer

  Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

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• I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Vision, Trying, Photograph

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• A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Art, Creativity

  "My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933".

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• Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Moments, Utopia, Here And Now

  Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz (1973). “Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer”

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• My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Art, Philosophy

  Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothy Norman (1976). “Alfred Stieglitz”

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• Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

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  Looks, Photographer, Photograph

  Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

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• All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Art, Love Is, Heartache

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• If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Differences, People, Perfect

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• The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Art, Self, Expression

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• My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the world’s constant upsetting of man’s equilibrium, and his eternal battle to reestablish it.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Men, Upset, Battle

  Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz (1973). “Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer”

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• As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the love of it, and not merely for financial reasons. As the name implies, an amateur is one who works for love.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Names, Matter

  Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

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• The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Hands, Years

  Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

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• Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Absolutes, Relative

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• I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Long, Quality

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• The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Art, Expression

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• It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all of oneself, and that becomes 'art' in time.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Art, Care, Photographer

  Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothy Norman (1976). “Alfred Stieglitz”

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• I detest tradition for tradition's sake; the half-alive; that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs, traditions; superstitions that go against life, against truth, against the reality of experience, against the spontaneous living out of the sense of wonder-of fresh experience, freshly seen and communicated.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Real, Hatred, Half

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• When I make a picture, I make love.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Making Love, Photographer

  Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz (1973). “Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer”

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• My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment. My patience was duly rewarded. Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired pictures.

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  Winter, Snow, Storm

  Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

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• There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Men, Done, Photographer

  Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz (1973). “Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer”

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• To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Portraits, Demand, Motion Pictures

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• The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made of chain; white suspenders crossed on the back of a man below; circular iron machinery; a mast that cut into the sky, completing a triangle.

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  Art, Cutting, Men

  Alfred Stieglitz, J. Paul Getty Museum (1995). “Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.20, Getty Publications

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