Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.) — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
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… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
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… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I experienced an… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
“Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
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