"Beautiful dreams - if the world were more……" — Alfred Stieglitz
"Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentless & cruel - people are - they must be, I suppose, or they could not live."
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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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As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who…
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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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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
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