Quotes from 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.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.

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

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

You can't photograph if you're not in love.

With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.

I can't stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.

Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and entertainment comes value.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

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