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.
Alfred StieglitzI am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
Alfred StieglitzThere is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.
Alfred StieglitzIf you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.
Alfred Stieglitz