I will work when failures seek rest.
Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer. )
To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
The fight for photography became my life.
The great geniuses are those who have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.
Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentless & cruel - people are - they must be, I suppose, or they could not live.
My life has been the polar opposite of safe, but I am proud of it and so is my son, and that is good enough for me. I would do it all over again without changing the beat, although I have never recommended it to others. That would be cruel and irresponsible and wrong, I think, and I am none of those things.
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.
Man's freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature.