"If you place the imperfect next to the……" — Alfred Stieglitz
"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."
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Alfred Stieglitz
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42 Quotes by Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz has 42 quotes on this site.
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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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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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