Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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 damned for they bind no wounds. Yet, I reasoned, if my photographs could cause compassionate horror within the viewer, they might also prod the conscience of that viewer into taking action.

W. Eugene Smith's Popular Quotes

My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understa…

- W. Eugene Smith

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 darkness, and many of…

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I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all.

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I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.

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Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

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What's the best type of light? Why that would be available light... and by available light I mean any damn light is available.

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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I …

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What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?

- W. Eugene Smith