The 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 StieglitzTechnically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)
Alfred StieglitzI have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.
Alfred StieglitzA work is not art until enough noise has been made about it and someone rich comes along and buys it.
Alfred Stieglitz