Alfred Stieglitz > Quotes

“Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”
― Alfred Stieglitz

“People—People.—Phone.—Phone.—Endless. And I am so tired.—And I would like to sleep under trees—Red ones—Blue ones—Swirling passionate ones—”
― Alfred Stieglitz, My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz

“There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.”
― Alfred Stieglitz

“When I make a picture, I make love.”
― Alfred Stieglitz

“The trouble with most photographers, and for that matter also with painters, and other people, is, that they are always trying to do something which is outside of themselves. In consequence they produce nothing that means anything to those who have the gift or intuition for truth: all else is really not worth a tinker's damn.”
― Alfred Stieglitz

“Your ghost everywhere—& I lonely beyond words…”
― Alfred Stieglitz