The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world. — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919) — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life. — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees. — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Every artist I suppose has a sense of what they think has been the importance of their work. But to ask them… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
“I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces; whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing,… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
The documentary photographer aims his camera at the real world to record truthfulness. At the same time, he must strive for form,… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Your photography is a record of your living - for anyone who really sees. You may see and be affected by other… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life. — Paul Strand Copy Share
I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws… — Paul Strand Copy Share
The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison… — Paul Strand Copy Share
I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a bit of… — Paul Strand Copy Share
Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either,… — Paul Strand Copy Share
The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends… — Paul Strand Copy Share
I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into… — Paul Strand Copy Share
Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of a cobweb… — Paul Strand Copy Share
If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial… — Paul Strand Copy Share
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness. — Paul Strand Copy Share
The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence of that… — Paul Strand Copy Share
No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it,… — Paul Strand Copy Share
