Art Quote by 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 always on his doorstep.”

Paul Strand

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

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

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All light is available light.

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

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

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The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something…

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I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a bit of an exaggeration. I would say, judging from myself, that it takes at least eight or nine years. But it does not take any longer than it takes to learn to play the piano or the violin.…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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 the rain represent a decisive moment? The exposure time was probably three or four minutes. That's a pretty long moment. I would say the decisive moment in that case was the moment in which I…

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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…

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