Guts Quote by Carol Friedman

I believe that photographers should be passionate, determined, disciplined and ready to seek out their own styles and identities.

— Michael Kenna

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

— 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

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

It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.

— Mario Testino

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

I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality.

— Kim Weston

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would…

— Bill Brandt

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

— Duane Michals

I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is…

— John Sexton

I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But…

— Helmut Newton