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.

My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees, they won't be seen - and still everyone will never forget having once looked at them.

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

Photography is my passion.

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

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.