Alfred Stieglitz

The great photographers are the seeing eyes of the world.

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

I have photographed the portrait of a woman just as she is, as any woman is.

The fight for the recognition of photography as an art is never ending.

Life is a series of equivalents.

The machine has no feelings; it is the human who imbues it with soul.

I want to photograph the soul.

Art is not a handicraft; it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

The sun, the forests, the clouds — all are equivalent in their power to move us.

Photography must be straight; no tricks, no faking.

My work is a personal confession.

The city is a great teacher of reality.

In art, as in life, the straight path is often the most profound.

I see in the clouds the equivalent of my deepest emotions.

The photograph is a mirror of the soul.

America is the only place where art is taken seriously as business.

To see is to feel; to feel is to see.

The little I know about art, I learned from clouds.

Photography is 99% interpretation.

Life's beauty is in its transience, captured forever in a print.