Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photography, and if you know how to use it, you will want to… — 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
