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Photograph Quotes by 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 labor.
- My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the world’s constant upsetting…
- My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees,…
- 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 most…
- I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.
- Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent…
- Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.
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- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- A good photograph is knowing where to stand. — Ansel Adams
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams
- A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams
- A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. — Ansel Adams
- Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. — Ansel Adams