W. Eugene Smith Quotes

• La fotografía es una voz pequeña, en el mejor de los casos, pero a veces una fotografía, o un grupo de ellas, puede atraer nuestro sentido de la conciencia.

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  Photography, Voice, Groups

  W. Eugene Smith (1981). “W. Eugene Smith, master of the photographic essay”

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

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  Feelings, Depth, Use

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

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  Photography, Travel, Cameras

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• Nunca he encontrado los límites del potencial fotográfico. Cada horizonte, al ser alcanzado, revela otro que hace señas en la distancia. Siempre estoy en el umbral.

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  Photography, Distance, Umpires

  W. Eugene Smith (1969). “W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes”

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• I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all.

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  Voice, Giving, Trying

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• I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?

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  Writing, Photographer

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

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  Peace, Attitude, Passion

  W. Eugene Smith (1969). “W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes”

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• Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

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  Art, Disease, Causes

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• The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no.

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  Impossible, Photographer, Honest

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• 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.

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  Profesor, Enseñanza, Pensamiento

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

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  Photograph, Ifs

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

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  Photography, Emotional, Made

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• Creo que el fotoperiodismo es fotografía documental con un propósito.

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  Photography, Thinking, Purpose

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• My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.

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  Giving, Understanding, Trying

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• ...and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive through the years, with the hope that they might echo through the minds of men in the future - causing them caution and remembrance and realization.

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  Men, Years, Echoes

  W. Eugene Smith (1969). “W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes”

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• En la música sigo prefiriendo la tonalidad menor, y en la impresión me gusta que la luz surja de la oscuridad. Me gustan las imágenes que superan la oscuridad, y muchas de mis fotografías son así. Es mi forma de ver fotográficamente. Por razones prácticas, creo que también queda mejor en la impresión.

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  Dark, Thinking, Keys

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• Available light is any damn light that is available!

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  Fotografía, Luz, Fotógrafo

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

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  Soul, Prejudice, Truth Is

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• No soporto estas malditas exposiciones en las paredes de los museos con marcos pequeños y ordenados, en las que miras las imágenes como si fueran obras de arte. Quiero que sean trozos de vida.

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  Art, Wall, Museums

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• My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said that photographs be damned for they bind no wounds. Yet, I reasoned, if my photographs could cause compassionate horror within the viewer, they might also prod the conscience of that viewer into taking action.

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  Fall, Men, Might

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• What's the best type of light? Why that would be available light... and by available light I mean any damn light is available.

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  Mean, Light, Would Be

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• Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of the work The print and a proper one is the only completed photograph, whether it is specifically shaded for reproduction, or for a museum wall.

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  Notebook, Wall, Museums

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• 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.

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  Attitude, Artist, Odds

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• The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective.

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  Firsts, Journalism, Folklore

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• 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.

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  Art, Depth, Purpose

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