Photography Quote by Alfred Stieglitz

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

— Alfred Stieglitz

“pathological narcissists can lose touch with reality in subtle ways that become extremely dangerous over time. When they can’t let go of their need…

— Bandy X Lee

Photography has almost no reality; it is almost a hundred per cent picture. And painting always has reality: you can touch the paint; it…

— Gerhard Richter

The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give more accurate…

— Susan Sontag

I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality. Some of…

— Storm Thorgerson

As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in which photography…

— Lewis Mumford

Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,…

— Paul Caponigro

I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I…

— Diane Arbus

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

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

I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of…

— Keith Carter

Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not…

— Ansel Adams