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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
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Alfred Stieglitz
Age: 81 †
Born: 1864
Born: January 1
Died: 1946
Died: January 1
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New Jersey
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Snow. White, white, white, soft and clean, and maddening shapes, with the whole world in them.
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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.
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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... I am not fighting to make a 'name' for myself. Maybe you have some feeling for what the fight is for. It's a world's fight... All that's born of spirit seems mad in these days of materialism run riot.
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Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.
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I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
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When I make a picture, I make love.
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Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.
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Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
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Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)
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