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War Photographer Inspirational Quotes (220)

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I think of the U.S. Marines like we used to think of the Foreign Legion as big mouths with big hearts.
Catherine Leroy
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There is no such thing as the perfect picture. That's the challenge of photography. I was always striving for perfection, even though I knew I could never achieve it. But it kept me reaching for something.
Phil Stern
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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.
W. Eugene Smith
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I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.
W. Eugene Smith
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With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.
W. Eugene Smith
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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!
W. Eugene Smith
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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.
W. Eugene Smith
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Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical approach, by the selection of the subject matterand by his decision as to the exact cinematic instant of exposure, he is blending the variables of interpretation into an emotional whole.
W. Eugene Smith
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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 my photographs are that way. It is the way I see photographically. For practical reasons, I think it looks better in print too.
W. Eugene Smith
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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.
W. Eugene Smith
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Available light is any damn light that is available!
W. Eugene Smith
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I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.
W. Eugene Smith
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I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
W. Eugene Smith
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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.
W. Eugene Smith
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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
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I attempt to channel my anger into the tip of my forefinger as I press the shutter.
Philip Jones Griffiths
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I don't come taking millions of pictures. I spend time with them and simply observe. If you wait long enough those amazing images will come.
Ami Vitale
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I think the most important thing any artist can do is to constantly push themselves and improve their craft.
Ami Vitale
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Find the stories that unite us
Ami Vitale
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Tunnel vision can kill creativity.
Ami Vitale
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Empathy is the key to great stories.
Ami Vitale
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Empathy is the wellspring of creativity.
Ami Vitale
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None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events.
James Nachtwey
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Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.
Chris Hondros
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