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… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share
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
“Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share
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… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share
Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze. — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share
