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…

- Paul Strand

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

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

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…

- 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.

- 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

All light is available light.

- Paul Strand

All good art is abstract in its structure.

- Paul Strand

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…

- Paul Strand