Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.
Alfred StieglitzRead
A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the unique perspective of woman artists who blend creativity with innate intuition and experience.
Alfred Stieglitz's quote reflects the idea that woman artists possess a special ability to maintain a childlike wonder and intuition while enriching their creativity with life experience and a broader vision. This combination allows them to innovate and create art that resonates deeply and expresses profound insights into the human experience.
In practice
In a discussion about the contributions of female artists in modern art.
Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all of oneself, and that becomes 'art' in time.
The fight for photography became my life.
There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.
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.
There must be so many people who have various artistic talents that, for whatever reason, just have no way of expressing them. Either they have no support from their family or they live in a part of the world, maybe they've never heard a piano or seen a piano.
I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.
There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.
You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
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