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
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 research into… — 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 a cobweb… — 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, a pictorial… — 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 humanness. — 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 of that… — 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 print it,… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
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