Quotes About Paul Strand

#1. The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.

Jerry Saltz

#2. My work is my language and I don't discuss it very easily. It's difficult for me to verbalize my feelings, or to intellectualize my work. In fact, it used to annoy me when Ansel Adams and Paul Strand yak-yak-yakked about what photography meant, and I told them so.

Brett Weston

#3. All light is available light.

Paul Strand

#4. I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again.

Judy Blume

#5. Perfectionism, of course, was something which even as a young man he had come to see as the innermost essence of talent.

Thomas Mann

#6. 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 is not really a fair question. My real answer would be, the answer is on the wall.

Paul Strand

#7. 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.

Paul Strand

#8. 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 care about a stranger.

Paul Strand

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

Paul Strand

#10. Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness

John McPhee

#11. It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

Paul Strand

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

Paul Strand

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

Paul Strand

#15. Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

#16. 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 photograph.

Paul Strand

#17. oh each poet's a beautiful human girl who must die.

Alice Notley

#18. The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

Irwin Edman

#19. My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields ... it's more like a poem ... and that's what I want to paint.

Joan Mitchell

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

Paul Strand

#21. The mustard lined his lips. At one point a strand of sauerkraut was smeared against his chin.

Paul Zindel

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

Paul Strand

#23. 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.

Paul Strand

#24. 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

#25. 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 inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.

Paul Strand

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

Paul Strand

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

Paul Strand

#28. The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life, but it also comes from the mind and the heart of the artist. The photograph is his vision of the world and expresses, however subtly, his values and convictions.

Paul Strand

#29. Every year it gets tougher and tougher. Mentally and physically. That's why you need to train and prepare.

Albert Pujols

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

Paul Strand

#31. All good art is abstract in its structure.

Paul Strand

#32. I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws of photography ... you have produced something that is dead. (1923)

Paul Strand

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

Paul Strand

#34. 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 to become universal and enduring because it comes out of something very particular.

Paul Strand

#35. 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 cannot say more than you can see.

Paul Strand

#36. Are you guys done up there?" Aris yelled, still facing the other direction. "Yes!" Teresa called back. "And don't expect me to ever kiss you on the cheek again. I think my lips have a fungus now.

James Dashner

#37. To be simple is not always as easy as it seems.

Ferdinand Hodler

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

Paul Strand

#39. Ethics in government has always been important to me.

Chris Bell

#40. No matter how you used yesterday, you received 24 hours today.

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