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 and reporting on the life of my own time. — 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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