W. Eugene Smith Quotes
Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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 a teacher.
What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?
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.
The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no.
I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!
I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.
The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective.
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 present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.
With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.
... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.
What's the best type of light? Why that would be available light... and by available light I mean any damn light is available.
The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and entertainment comes value.
What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?
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.
