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

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Your photography is a record of your living - for anyone who really sees. You may see and be affected by other people's ways, you may even use them to find your own, but you will have eventually to free yourself of them. That is what Nietzche meant when he said, 'I have just read Schopenhauer, now I have to get rid of him.' He knew how insidious other people's ways could be, particularly those which have the forcefulness of profound experience, if you let them get between you and your own personal vision.

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.

- 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.

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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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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 good art is abstract in its structure.

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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 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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