When I make a picture, I make love.

All I want is to preserve that wonderful something which so purely exists between us.

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

A work is not art until enough noise has been made about it and someone rich comes along and buys it.

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)

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.