A work is not art until enough noise has been made about it and someone rich comes along and buys it. Alfred Stieglitz More Quotes by Alfred Stieglitz More Quotes From 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. Alfred Stieglitz photography hands years Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute. Alfred Stieglitz relative absolutes To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still. Alfred Stieglitz motion-pictures portraits demand 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, they won't be seen - and still everyone will never forget having once looked at them. Alfred Stieglitz etching eye looks Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentless & cruel - people are - they must be, I suppose, or they could not live. Alfred Stieglitz dream beautiful people When I make a picture, I make love. Alfred Stieglitz making-love photographer The fight for photography became my life. Alfred Stieglitz fighting photography Photography is my passion. Alfred Stieglitz passion photography photographer I detest tradition for tradition's sake; the half-alive; that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs, traditions; superstitions that go against life, against truth, against the reality of experience, against the spontaneous living out of the sense of wonder-of fresh experience, freshly seen and communicated. Alfred Stieglitz hatred real half Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze. Alfred Stieglitz fads legs photography My ideal is to achieve the ability to produce numberless prints from each negative, prints all significantly alive, yet indistinguishably alike, and to be able to circulate them at a price not higher than that of a popular magazine, or even a daily paper. To gain that ability there has been no choice but to follow the road I have chosen. Alfred Stieglitz magazines choices negative There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so. Alfred Stieglitz photographer done men Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs. Alfred Stieglitz photography mistake ideas All I want is to preserve that wonderful something which so purely exists between us. Alfred Stieglitz preserves want wonderful There are many schools of painting. Why should there not be many schools of photographic art? There is hardly a right and a wrong in these matters, but there is truth, and that should form the basis of all works of art. Alfred Stieglitz matter art school Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.) Alfred Stieglitz rotten photographer perfect 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 certain kind of freedom could exist. This may well account for my seeking a related sense of liberty as I grew up. Alfred Stieglitz atmosphere parent book 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 treated me like a gentleman. Alfred Stieglitz gentleman photography photographer Several people feel I have photographed God. May be. Alfred Stieglitz photographer may people I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing. Alfred Stieglitz photography artist may
