5 Quotes by Eddie Adams

Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.

If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that’s a good picture.

Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind, a person can write the best story in the world; but a photograph is absolute.

I’m not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power.

All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name.