I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of the creative artist who often is necessarily at poetic odds with the literal facts.
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
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
Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I … - W. Eugene Smith
Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I …
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… - 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…
I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all. - W. Eugene Smith
I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all.
Hardening of the categories causes art disease. - W. Eugene Smith
Hardening of the categories causes art disease.
I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil. - W. Eugene Smith
I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
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
What's the best type of light? Why that would be available light... and by available light I mean any damn light is available.
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
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling? - W. Eugene Smith
What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?
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