Paul Strand Quotes
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The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his…
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It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
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Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.
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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…
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And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography you may be…
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The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely here…
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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…
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All good art is abstract in its structure.
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The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence of that person…
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No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you…
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Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation
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To be a photographer you must have something to say about the world.
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If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.
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Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.
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The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world.
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Every artist I suppose has a sense of what they think has been the importance of their work. But to ask them to define it…
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It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer…
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I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them.
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Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is…
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All light is available light.
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