Common Quote by Paul Strand

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

Paul Strand

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

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

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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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Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

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