Alfred Stieglitz

“All my photographs are portraits—whatever the subject.”

“I am not a photographer. I am a photo-secessionist!”

“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”

“Wherever I look, wherever I have looked, I see photographs.”

“Photography is my passion, the search for truth.”

“The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a duck takes to water.”

“I have been fighting all my life for the recognition of photography as a fine art.”

“What is of importance is the inspiration of life, of addresses, of driving visions, of wishes.”

“The goal of art was the vital expression of self.”

“My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences.”

“The great-smelling beautiful world, the real world, is a place to live in, and not to be only looked at.”

“Every print I make is a new experience, a new discovery.”

“Through my images I want to tell you a story.”

“Art is the triumph over chaos.”

“It is not the subject that is important but the photographer’s way of seeing.”