Ability Quote by Alfred Stieglitz

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

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

Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.

— Alfred Stieglitz

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

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

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

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

— 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…

— Alfred Stieglitz

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

— Alfred Stieglitz

“Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”

— Alfred Stieglitz

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.

— Alfred Stieglitz

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