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.
Alfred StieglitzFor that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality.
Alfred StieglitzTechnically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)
Alfred StieglitzIf you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and youโd ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, sheโd say: He always treated me like a gentleman.
Alfred StieglitzBefore the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art.
Alfred Stieglitz