Quotes by Alfred Stieglitz - Page 1

Photography is my passion.
Alfred Stieglitz / Photographer
Passion
Photographer
Photography
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When I make a picture, I make love.
Alfred Stieglitz / Photographer
Making Love
Photographer
Picture
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The fight for photography became my life.
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Fighting
Photography
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Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
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Light
Photograph
Photographer
Photography
Wherever
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All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.
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Art
Heartache
Love Is
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The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
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Art
Expression
Self
Vital
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Several people feel I have photographed God. May be.
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May
People
Photographer
God People Feel
Photographed
Several
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Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.
Alfred Stieglitz / Photographer
Passion
Photographer
Photography
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Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.
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Absolutes
Relative
Absolute
Except
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In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
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Art
Inspirational
Inspiring
Smile
Photography
Real
Reality
Subtle
More
Becomes
Than
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All I want is to preserve that wonderful something which so purely exists between us.
Alfred Stieglitz / Photographer
Preserves
Want
Wonderful
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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 / Photographer
Form
Photograph
Trying
Vision
Try
Photographs
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Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.
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Ashamed
Looks
Photograph
Photographer
Photographers
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Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.
Alfred Stieglitz / Photographer
Fads
Legs
Photography
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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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Artist
May
Painter
Photography
Undoing
Straight
Nor
Therefore
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Snow. White, white, white, soft and clean, and maddening shapes, with the whole world in them.
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Snow
White
World
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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.
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Art
Noise
Rich
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I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession.
Alfred Stieglitz / Photographer
Truth
Born
Obsession
Passion
Photography
American
Search
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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.
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Men
Done
Photographer
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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.
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Here And Now
Moments
Utopia
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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.
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Giving
Personality
Special
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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.
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Quality
Long
Photography
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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.
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Hands
Photography
Years
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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.
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Art
Creativity
Photography
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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 / Photographer
Demand
Motion Pictures
Portraits
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Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)
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Perfect
Photographer
Rotten
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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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Gentleman
Photographer
Photography
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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.
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Dream
Beautiful
People
Relentless
Cruel
Suppose
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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.
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Art
Philosophy
Photography
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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 / Photographer
Art
Expression
Photography
Arts
Departments
Distinct
Equally
Merely
Possibilities
Unless
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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.
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Art
Care
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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Miracle
Piano
Waiting
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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.
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Differences
People
Perfect
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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.
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Men
Battle
Upset
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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.
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Art
Photography
Real
Term
Essential
Meaning Of
Real Meaning
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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.
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Art
Matter
School
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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.
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Etching
Eye
Looks
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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.
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Matter
Names
Photography
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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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Atmosphere
Book
Impression
Lasting
Liberty
Parent
Related
Seeking
Life Freedom Me
Account
Exist
Doubtless
Pictures
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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?
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Art
New York
Lonely
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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
Men
Cutting
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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.
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Ideas
Mistake
Photography
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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.
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Teacher
Believe
School
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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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Snow
Storm
Winter
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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.
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Running
Photography
Struggle
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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.
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Half
Hatred
Real
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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 / Photographer
Choices
Magazines
Negative
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