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"With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph."
"When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days."
"In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners."
"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
"I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts."
"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."
"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."
"Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks."
Explore more quotes by Alfred Stieglitz
"The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art."
"I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing."
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