Artist Quotes by Paul Strand

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

— Paul Strand

Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.

— Paul Strand

All light is available light.

— Paul Strand

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.

— Paul Strand

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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