Best Alfred Stieglitz Quotes
- Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute. Absolute
- Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentless & cruel - people are -… Beautiful
- Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential… Art
- We had many books and pictures... my parents' way of life doubtless left a lasting impression on me. They created an atmosphere in which a… Account
- Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent… Amateur
- I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I experienced an intense… Art
- The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas.… Camera
- Standing up here on the hill away from all humans - seeing these Wonders taking place before one's eyes - so silently... watching the silence… All
- Snow. White, white, white, soft and clean, and maddening shapes, with the whole world in them. Clean
- My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment.… Avenue
- In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. Becomes
- Wherever there is light, one can photograph. Light
- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. Ashamed
- The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely… Art
- Several people feel I have photographed God. May be. Feel
- 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 fight...… All
- I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession. American