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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.

Alfred Stieglitz

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Alfred Stieglitz
Age: 81 †
Born: 1864
Born: January 1
Died: 1946
Died: January 1
Exhibition Curator
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Hoboken
New Jersey
Alfred Steiglitz
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The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
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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 profound life experiences.
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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.
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The fight for photography became my life.
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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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Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.
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As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the love of it, and not merely for financial reasons. As the name implies, an amateur is one who works for love.
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Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.
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Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
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There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.
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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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Several people feel I have photographed God. May be.
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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.
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The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.
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Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.
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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.
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A work is not art until enough noise has been made about it and someone rich comes along and buys it.
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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.
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