The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.) — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs. — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of… — 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
