"The world just does not fit conveniently into……" — W. Eugene Smith

"The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera."

— W. Eugene Smith

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28 Quotes by W. Eugene Smith

W. Eugene Smith has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense…
I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
Available light is any damn light that is available!
Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never…
Hardening of the categories causes art disease.
Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside…
What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?
The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out…
In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I…
My pictures are complex and so am I.
Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice…
The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely…

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More Camera Quotes

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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express… — Ansel Adams
I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask 'Is this a close up? Is this a master?… — Christian Bale
I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that. — Drew Barrymore
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is. — Berenice Abbott
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. — Walter Benjamin
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet… — John Berger
I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are… — Anthony Bourdain
At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go… — Anthony Bourdain
I like to know where the camera is. — Jeff Bridges
I've always been involved with all aspects of my careers. Being behind the camera seems as natural as in front. — Sarah Brightman
Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty. — David Brinkley
If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot… — Kobe Bryant

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