"As a matter of fact, nearly all the……" — Alfred Stieglitz
"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."
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Alfred Stieglitz
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42 Quotes by Alfred Stieglitz
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The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
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The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its…
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I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities…
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Photography is my passion.
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I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
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The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct…
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It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a…
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Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.
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If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz,…
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My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints…
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For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by…
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My ideal is to achieve the ability to produce numberless prints from each negative, prints all significantly alive, yet indistinguishably…
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