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…

— 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…

— 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:…

— 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…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term,…

— Alfred Stieglitz

I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I…

— 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…

— 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…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.

— Alfred Stieglitz

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

— Alfred Stieglitz

I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession.

— Alfred Stieglitz

My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Several people feel I have photographed God. May be.

— Alfred Stieglitz

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

— Alfred Stieglitz

Photography is my passion.

— Alfred Stieglitz

A work is not art until enough noise has been made about it and someone rich comes along and buys it.

— Alfred Stieglitz

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts,…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)

— Alfred Stieglitz

Snow. White, white, white, soft and clean, and maddening shapes, with the whole world in them.

— Alfred Stieglitz

Standing up here on the hill away from all humans - seeing these Wonders taking place before one's eyes - so silently...…

— Alfred Stieglitz