Etchings Quotes by Alfred Stieglitz

More Quotes by Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz has 42 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
• The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made…
• I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic…
• Photography is my passion.
• I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
• As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following…
• The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with…
• It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of…
• Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.
• If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, she’d say:…
• My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the…
• For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark…

See all 42 quotes by Alfred Stieglitz »