Damn Light Quotes by W. Eugene Smith

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as…

— W. Eugene Smith

... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.

— W. Eugene Smith

Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.

— W. Eugene Smith

I was after a set of pictures, so that when people looked at them they would say, ‘This is war’-that the people who were…

— W. Eugene Smith

I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I…

— W. Eugene Smith

The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective.

— W. Eugene Smith

What's the best type of light? Why that would be available light... and by available light I mean any damn light is available.

— W. Eugene Smith

I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of the creative…

— W. Eugene Smith

You can't photograph if you're not in love.

— W. Eugene Smith

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

— W. Eugene Smith

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.

— W. Eugene Smith

Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion…

— W. Eugene Smith

My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said that photographs…

— W. Eugene Smith

The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and…

— W. Eugene Smith

I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?

— W. Eugene Smith