Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

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

A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.

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

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

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

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

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 profound life experiences.

If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.

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.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

I was rather a goody-goody as a child... It was only later on I discovered that you could be naughty and get away with it.

The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.

He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

I hope to become an actor who succeed not from how I look, but my talent.

At some point you may get fired, but don't worry you will learn from it

Dance in your dream. Go out into the street and hug everyone you meet. Tell them how beautiful they are. Dance together.