People are competing to win at a game that is a loser's game. The game is to have better routine images than someone else's routine images. If you wa…

- Henry Holmes Smith

I think control is the wrong word. I would put it this way. You see a lovely girl across a crowded room and you walk toward her with hope in your min…

- Henry Holmes Smith

In a world of disturbing images, the general body of photography is bland, dealing complacently with nature and treating our preconceptions as insigh…

- Henry Holmes Smith

The intensely felt subjective image is always the reason for making a first rate picture.

- Henry Holmes Smith

Somebody said recently that the best thing a student could do was to get in some shows and publish a book; but nothing about becoming a human being, …

- Henry Holmes Smith

The brightest light makes the blackest mark.

- Henry Holmes Smith