Alfred Stieglitz

My photographs are not about what I see, but about what I feel.

The artist must be a bridge between the visible and the invisible.

I believe in the power of simplicity, of directness.

My life has been dedicated to the pursuit of beauty and truth.

Photography is a journey into the unknown.

I want to make photographs that sing, that dance, that cry.

The artist must be a revolutionary, a breaker of traditions.

I have always been a solitary figure, a lone wolf.

Photography is a spiritual act, a communion with the universe.

My photographs are my legacy, my gift to the world.

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

My ideal is to achieve the ability to produce numberless prints from each negative; prints all equally perfect… that means the negative will be buried.

The photograph is not literature; it is a vision.

Through photography, the spirit of the machine age is captured.

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for each of the moods or each for the sensations of that vision.

The clouds were really my teachers — that is, the sky at sea.

Art is the unfolding of truth.

The spiritual in art is the truth.

Photography! That's a battle on its own, for people are constantly belittling it.

I was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1864, but my birthplace is really the city of New York.