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Alfred Stieglitz Quotes
![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 Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/771/770605/770605.webp "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 Picture Quote #1")
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Wherever there is light, one can photograph (Alfred Stieglitz Quotes)
Several people feel I have photographed God. May be (Alfred Stieglitz Quotes)
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 Quotes)
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality (Alfred Stieglitz Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (Alfred Stieglitz Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Photography is my passion (Alfred Stieglitz Quotes)
Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession (Alfred Stieglitz Quotes)
Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs (Alfred Stieglitz Quotes)
The goal of art was the vital expression of self (Alfred Stieglitz Quotes)
All I want is to preserve that wonderful something which so purely exists between us (Alfred Stieglitz Quotes)
When I make a picture, I make love (Alfred Stieglitz Quotes)
Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute (Alfred Stieglitz Quotes)
All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache (Alfred Stieglitz Quotes)
Snow. White, white, white, soft and clean, and maddening shapes, with the whole world in them (Alfred Stieglitz Quotes)
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 (Alfred Stieglitz Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs (Alfred Stieglitz Quotes)
The great geniuses are those who have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience (Alfred Stieglitz Quotes)
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 Quotes)
There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so (Alfred Stieglitz Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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