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

My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the world’s constant upsetting of man’s equilibrium, and his eternal battle to reestablish it.

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 ideal is to achieve the ability to produce numberless prints from each negative, prints all significantly alive, yet indistinguishably alike, and to be able to circulate them at a price not higher than that of a popular magazine, or even a daily paper. To gain that ability there has been no choice but to follow the road I have chosen.

The fight for photography became my life.

Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.