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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-strand/look-at-the-things-around-you-the-immediate-world-around-you-if-you/)

[Paul Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-strand/)

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## More by Paul Strand

> [Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-strand/your-photography-is-a-record-of-your-living-for-anyone-who-really-sees/)

[Paul Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-strand/)

> [Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-strand/photography-is-only-a-new-road-from-a-different-direction-but-moving/)

[Paul Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-strand/)

> [All light is available light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-strand/all-light-is-available-light/)

[Paul Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-strand/)

> [If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-strand/if-the-photographer-is-not-a-discoverer-then-he-is-not-an-artist/)

[Paul Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-strand/i-don-t-care-how-you-photograph-use-the-kitchen-mop-if-you-must-but/)

[Paul Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-strand/the-existence-of-a-medium-after-all-is-its-absolute-justification-if/)

[Paul Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-strand/i-read-the-other-day-that-minor-white-said-it-takes-twenty-years-to/)

[Paul Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-strand/whether-a-watercolor-is-inferior-to-an-oil-painting-or-whether-a/)

[Paul Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-strand/the-artist-is-one-who-makes-a-concentrated-statement-about-the-world/)

[Paul Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-strand/i-ve-always-wanted-to-be-aware-of-what-s-going-on-around-me-and-i-ve/)

[Paul Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-strand/cartier-bresson-has-said-that-photography-seizes-a-decisive-moment/)

[Paul Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-strand/if-you-let-other-people-s-vision-get-between-the-world-and-your-own/)

[Paul Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-strand/it-is-one-thing-to-photograph-people-it-is-another-to-make-others/)

[Paul Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-strand/the-portrait-of-a-person-is-one-of-the-most-difficult-things-to-do-it/)

[Paul Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-strand/no-matter-what-lens-you-use-no-matter-what-speed-the-film-no-matter/)

[Paul Strand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-strand/)

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