Eddie Adams Quotes

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.

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

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

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.