I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.

I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

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

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.

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.

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.