In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
Alfred StieglitzMy cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artistโs most profound life experiences.
Alfred StieglitzTechnically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)
Alfred StieglitzTo demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.
Alfred Stieglitz