Agency Quote by Harold Wallace Rosenthal

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

— 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

What does a professional photojournalist do that others cannot? Depicting photo opportunities as if they are authentic, covering press conferences, or making subjects play…

— Fred Ritchin

Photographers do more assignments than reporters do, so they know their communities better.

— Beth Macy

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

This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in the medium.…

— David Hurn

... we photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs. We are to be found everywhere we are not wanted; we…

— Brassai

“The relationship between the famous and the public who sustain them is governed by a striking paradox. Infinitely remote, the great stars of politics,…

— J.G. Ballard

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

You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer.

— Derek Jeter

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