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Alfred Stieglitz - From the Ability category:
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)
Alfred Stieglitz - From the Acceptance category:
There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so. (Alfred Stieglitz)
Alfred Stieglitz - From the Art category:
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)
Alfred Stieglitz - From the Expression category:
The goal of art was the vital expression of self. (Alfred Stieglitz)
Alfred Stieglitz - From the Light category:
Wherever there is light, one can photograph [paint]. (Alfred Stieglitz)
Alfred Stieglitz - From the Loneliness category:
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)
Alfred Stieglitz - From the Meaning category:
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)
Alfred Stieglitz - From the Miracles category:
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)
Alfred Stieglitz - From the Nature category:
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)
Alfred Stieglitz - From the Observation category:
Snow. White, white, white, soft and clean, and maddening shapes, with the whole world in them. (Alfred Stieglitz)
Alfred Stieglitz - From the Obsession category:
Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession. (Alfred Stieglitz)
Alfred Stieglitz - From the Photography category:
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)
Alfred Stieglitz - From the Photography category:
Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. (Alfred Stieglitz)
Alfred Stieglitz - From the Plein-Air category:
-The Hand Camera, 1897...
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)
Alfred Stieglitz - From the Reality category:
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. (Alfred Stieglitz)
Alfred Stieglitz - From the Seeing category:
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing. (Alfred Stieglitz)
Alfred Stieglitz - From the Spirituality category:
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)
Alfred Stieglitz - From the Standards category:
As a matter of fact nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography [creative arts] for the love of it, and not merely for financial reasons. As the name implies, an amateur is one who works for love; and viewed in this light the incorrectness of the popular classification is readily apparent. (Alfred Stieglitz)
Alfred Stieglitz - From the Struggle category:
-to J. Dudley Johnston, 15 October 1923...
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)
Alfred Stieglitz - From the Truth category:
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)
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