Eugene Smith Quotes
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But, memory paints impressionistic portraits of the past, enhancing some images and blurring others. To her,
— Monique Martin
I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.
— W. Eugene Smith
My pictures are complex and so am I.
— W. Eugene Smith
What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?
— David Eugene Smith
Another promise made by a man who'd kept too few.
— Kristin Hannah
I seered, burning love
disappear
forever. — Lisa Schroeder
I decline to go fox hunting (nor did she want her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting).
— Princess Diana
The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
To became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.
— W. Eugene Smith
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
The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective.
— W. Eugene Smith
What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?
— W. Eugene Smith
Hardening of the categories causes art disease.
— W. Eugene Smith
An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.
— W. Eugene Smith
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.
— W. Eugene Smith
With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.
— W. Eugene Smith
Everybody says that they're against the special interests. I'm the only one the special interests don't give any money to.
— John McCain
I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
— W. Eugene Smith
Science and violence turned silence to rage.
— Emily Saliers
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
As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Available light is any damn light that is available!
— W. Eugene Smith
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.
— W. Eugene Smith
You can't photograph if you're not in love.
— W. Eugene Smith
I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.
— W. Eugene Smith
As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush.
— Natalie Dormer
I didn't write the rules. Why would I follow them?
— W. Eugene Smith
Hard work's a good distraction.
— Scott Westerfeld