Admitting Quote by Bill Brandt

The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.

— Duane Michals

“We photographers are a despicable bunch. We take photographs. The best of us do not show people as they wish to be seen, instead,…

— Waswo X. Waswo

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as…

— Tod Papageorge

I think that people have to just go with their gut and follow their passion if they're photographers.

— Carol Friedman

There are photographers who don't really engage with their subject. It's a really unfortunate phrase, but they take their photo and they leave with…

— Sebastian Junger

There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the…

— Ernst Haas

Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.

— W. Eugene Smith

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.

— Bill Brandt

There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination.…

— Gordon Willis

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

— Duane Michals

There's an awful lot of work being done that no one ever sees, or that is only seen in the gallery world. I feel…

— Stuart Franklin

When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know…

— Robert Adams