The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera.

- Eddie Adams

I'm not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power.

- Eddie Adams

All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name.

- Eddie Adams

If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.

- Eddie Adams

Fear not a thousand accusing fingers, if you are right.

- Eddie Adams

I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On his 1968 photograph of the summa…

- Eddie Adams

I saw a man walk into my camera viewfinder from the left. He took a pistol out of his holster and raised it. I had no idea he would shoot. It was com…

- Eddie Adams

Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only ha…

- Eddie Adams

Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind, a person can wri…

- Eddie Adams