Quotes from 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.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

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

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 reporting on the life of my own time.

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

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

I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.

I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn't destroyed them.

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.

If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.

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.

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.