I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have fought its fight... I am not fighting to make a 'name' for myself. Maybe you have some feeling for what the fight is for. It's a world's fight... All that's born of spirit seems mad in these days of materialism run riot.

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

For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality.

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

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

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.

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.