Art Quote by 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

Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s right to…

— Janet Malcolm

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet.

— Werner Herzog

I've never really felt like a journalist. I've felt like a writer and a diarist. I have made myself vulnerable in my writing, and…

— Tavi Gevinson

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

— Todor Zhivkov

Let us have our heroes. Let us continue to believe that some have been truly great; that it lies within human ability to overcome…

— Lyndon Baines Johnson

“In my opinion it is not the writer's job to solve such problems as God, pessimism, etc; his job is merely to record who,…

— Anton Chekhov

“The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.”

— Karl Kraus

[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They have experienced…

— Anna Quindlen

I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being…

— Abhay Deol

Since I was a graduate student, I've done a lot of journalism on the side, for The Village Voice, The Nation etc. And my…

— Rob Nixon

I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive…

— J. Anthony Lukas