Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

When I make a picture, I make love.

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

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.

Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art.

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.

The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor.

I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.