[A photograph] should do something to the beholder; either give a more complete appreciation of beauty, or, if nothing else, even a good mental kick …

- Paul Outerbridge

Nudity is a state of fact; lewdity, to coin a phrase, is a state of mind

- Paul Outerbridge

In black and white you suggest, in color you state.

- Paul Outerbridge

The business of the state trying to legislate modesty is relatively both an infantile and ridiculous procedure. Of course, it is true that the more t…

- Paul Outerbridge

I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and that this newest form [photography] was m…

- Paul Outerbridge

If exposure of a nude body is thought to incite relations between the sexes, well, what of it. We want a large population anyway.

- Paul Outerbridge

One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be im…

- Paul Outerbridge

Now, whereas we do not find it hard to accept the beauty of a flower for itself alone, in present-day, mechanical-industrial civilization, people wil…

- Paul Outerbridge

Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty-- his escape from the sordid realities of life into a world of his imagining.…

- Paul Outerbridge