I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

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

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

I detest tradition for tradition's sake; the half-alive; that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs, traditions; superstitions that go against life, against truth, against the reality of experience, against the spontaneous living out of the sense of wonder-of fresh experience, freshly seen and communicated.

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.

All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.