It has always been my belief that the true artist, like the true scientist, is a researcher using materials and techniques to dig into the truth and meaning of the world in which he himself lives; and what he creates,… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery. — 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 of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something… — 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 an exaggeration. I would say, judging from myself, that it takes at least eight or nine years. But it does not take any longer than it takes to learn to play the piano or the violin.… — 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 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 in the rain represent a decisive moment? The exposure time was probably three or four minutes. That's a pretty long moment. I would say the decisive moment in that case was the moment in which I… — 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 Image
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