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Photograph Quotes by W. Eugene Smith
- Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
- Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of the…
- In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures that surmount the…
- My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.
- Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is…
- I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war - the brutal corrupting viciousness of…
- My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said that photographs be…
- My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting difference’s of accepting, while I…
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- You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. — David Bailey
- Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character… — David Bailey
- I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to… — David Bailey
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- A good photograph is knowing where to stand. — Ansel Adams
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams
- A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams
- A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. — Ansel Adams
- Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. — Ansel Adams