Alfred Stieglitz

"I know exactly what I have photographed . I know I have done something that has never been done.. .I also know that there is more of the really abstract in some 'representation' than in most of the de…"

"When I make a photograph, I make love."

"I have always been a great believer in today. Most people live either in the past or in the future, so that they really never live at all. So many people are busy worrying about the future of art or s…"

"I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for truth my obsession"

"to show that photographs was not due to subject matter – not to special trees or faces, or interiors, to special privileges – clouds were there for everyone.. .I wanted to photograph clouds to find ou…"

"AS A KID I WAS PROMISED an America - An America I believed in - and I insist on living - and dying - in that America, even I have to create it myself."

"Photography is not an art. Neither is painting, nor sculpture, literature or music. They are only different media for the individual to express his aesthetic feelings.. .You do not have to be a painte…"

"Atmosphere is the medium through which we see all things. In order, therefore, to see them in their true value on a photograph, as we do in Nature, atmosphere must be there. Atmosphere softens all lin…"