Eddie Adams Quotes


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

The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera

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

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