Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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 in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.

Paul Strand's Popular Quotes

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.

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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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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 ca…

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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 doorstep.

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All good art is abstract in its structure.

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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 photogra…

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All light is available light.

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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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The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be…

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