8+ Eddie Adams Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Eddie Adams quotes and sayings.

If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture. — 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. — Eddie Adams

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. — Eddie Adams

I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.) — Eddie Adams

Fear not a thousand accusing fingers, if you are right. — Eddie Adams

The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. — Eddie Adams

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

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