Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

- Alfred Stieglitz

All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.

- Alfred Stieglitz

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

- Alfred Stieglitz

For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality.

- Alfred Stieglitz

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

- Alfred Stieglitz

My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most…

- Alfred Stieglitz

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

- Alfred Stieglitz

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.

- Alfred Stieglitz

My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment. …

- Alfred Stieglitz