"Photography is not an art. Neither is painting, nor sculpture, literature or music. They are only different media for…"

"Atmosphere is the medium through which we see all things. In order, therefore, to see them in their true value on a p…"

"Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze."

"to show that [the success of my portray-] photographs was not due to subject matter – not to special trees or faces, …"

"I know exactly what I have photographed [in his series 'Equivalents', 1925 - 1934]. I know I have done something that…"

"There is a reality — so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. That's what I'm trying to get down in photogra…"

"I have always been a great believer in today. Most people live either in the past or in the future, so that they real…"

"Nearly right is child's play"

"Man: [looking at a Stieglitz's photo of 'Equivalents'] Is this a photograph of water? Stieglitz: What difference does…"

"AS A KID I WAS PROMISED an America - An America I believed in - and I insist on living - and dying - in that America,…"