I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
Alfred StieglitzThe arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.
Alfred StieglitzThere is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.
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 Stieglitz