... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war - the brutal… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting difference’s of… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
