Paul Strand

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

— Paul Strand

Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.

— Paul Strand

All light is available light.

— Paul Strand

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.

— Paul Strand

I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to…

— Paul Strand

The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and…

— Paul Strand

I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a…

— Paul Strand

Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important…

— Paul Strand

The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— Paul Strand

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their…

— Paul Strand

The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence…

— Paul Strand

No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you…

— Paul Strand

Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)

— Paul Strand

And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography…

— Paul Strand

To be a photographer you must have something to say about the world.

— Paul Strand

The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow…

— Paul Strand

Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation

— Paul Strand

Every artist I suppose has a sense of what they think has been the importance of their work. But to ask them…

— Paul Strand

It has always been my belief that the true artist, like the true scientist, is a researcher using materials and techniques to…

— Paul Strand

The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world.

— Paul Strand

Your photography is a record of your living - for anyone who really sees. You may see and be affected by other…

— Paul Strand

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is…

— Paul Strand