Accepting Quote by 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

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

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers,…

— Aaron Siskind

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us…

— Alison Jackson

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

Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible.

— Bill Jay

For me what photographers say about their photos doesn’t have any importance. For me it is just enough to look at the pictures. Many…

— Josef Koudelka

And one has to remember that no photography can pretend to show the truth. A picture only shows a given situation under a very…

— Antoine D'Agata

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

— Carol Friedman

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

A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.

— Fred Picker

“Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and…

— David Levi Strauss