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…

- W. Eugene Smith

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

- W. Eugene Smith

Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

- 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.

- W. Eugene Smith

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

- 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

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