Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.


Alfred Polgar

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I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ
In the American Grain: Dove, Hartley, Marin, O'Keeffe and Stieglitz
ALFRED STIEGLITZ
Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ
The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ
As I hold the future well-being of photography very dear I must see to it that these forces which mi...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ
Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with phot...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ
The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expr...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ
I do not object to retouching, dodging. or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the na...
ALFRED STIEGLITZ
Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
ALFRED SMITH
Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, y...
ALFRED SMITH
The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
ALFRED SMITH
It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with wh...
ALFRED SMITH
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
ALFRED SMITH
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to s...
ALFRED SMITH
Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
ALFRED SLOAN
The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. T...
ALFRED SLOAN
If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
ALFRED SLOAN
In any organization men would move up from the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition an...
ALFRED SLOAN
Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force ...
ALFRED SLOAN
A car for every purse and purpose.
ALFRED SLOAN
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obsta...
ALFRED SLOAN
Some have an idea that the reason we in this country discard things so readily is because we have so...
ALFRED SLOAN
If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this m...
ALFRED SLOAN
The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
ALFRED SISLEY
I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.
ALFRED SISLEY
Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
ALFRED SISLEY
Our family lived in Vienna, Austria. after the war and apart from an accordion, there was no other m...
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in ...
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long la...
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do.
ALFRED ROSENBERG