If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely … - Paul Strand

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I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target. . . they're the poison gas of cyberspace.

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 photograph.

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

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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)

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

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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.

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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.

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