Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentless & cruel - people are - they must be, I suppose, or they could not live.

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

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

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.

Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentless & cruel - people are - they must be, I suppose, or they could not live.

The fight for photography became my life.

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