Alfred Stieglitz Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  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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• My ideal is to achieve the ability to produce numberless prints from each negative, prints all significantly alive, yet indistinguishably alike, and to be able to circulate them at a price not higher than that of a popular magazine, or even a daily paper. To gain that ability there has been no choice but to follow the road I have chosen.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Choices, Negative, Magazines

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

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• Standing up here on the hill away from all humans - seeing these Wonders taking place before one's eyes - so silently... watching the silence of Nature. No school - no church - is as good a teacher as the eye understandingly seeing what's before it. I believe this more firmly than ever.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Teacher, Believe, School

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• Photography is my passion.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Passion, Photographer

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

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• Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentless & cruel - people are - they must be, I suppose, or they could not live.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Beautiful, Dream, People

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Sarah Greenough, Alfred Stieglitz (2011). “My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933”, p.565, Yale University Press

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• Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Mistake, Ideas

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

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• My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees, they won't be seen - and still everyone will never forget having once looked at them.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Eye, Etching, Looks

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• Snow. White, white, white, soft and clean, and maddening shapes, with the whole world in them.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  White, Snow, World

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• Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Perfect, Rotten, Photographer

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• There are many schools of painting. Why should there not be many schools of photographic art? There is hardly a right and a wrong in these matters, but there is truth, and that should form the basis of all works of art.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Art, School, Matter

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

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• Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Legs, Fads

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

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• Several people feel I have photographed God. May be.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  People, May, Photographer

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

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• A work is not art until enough noise has been made about it and someone rich comes along and buys it.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Art, Noise, Rich

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• I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have fought its fight... I am not fighting to make a 'name' for myself. Maybe you have some feeling for what the fight is for. It's a world's fight... All that's born of spirit seems mad in these days of materialism run riot.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Running, Struggle

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• The fight for photography became my life.

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  Photography, Fighting

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• We had many books and pictures... my parents' way of life doubtless left a lasting impression on me. They created an atmosphere in which a certain kind of freedom could exist. This may well account for my seeking a related sense of liberty as I grew up.

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  Book, Parent, Atmosphere

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

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• If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, she’d say: He always treated me like a gentleman.

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  Photography, Gentleman, Photographer

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• The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.

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  Piano, Waiting, Miracle

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• I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

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  Photography, Artist, May

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• I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I experienced an intense longing for Europe, for its vital tradition of music, theatre, art, craftsmanship... I felt bewildered and lonely. How was I to use myself?

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Lonely, Art, New York

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

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• Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Photography, Art, Real

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

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