diff --git a/keras_preprocessing/image/directory_iterator.py b/keras_preprocessing/image/directory_iterator.py
index 0911eaef..280021bc 100644
--- a/keras_preprocessing/image/directory_iterator.py
+++ b/keras_preprocessing/image/directory_iterator.py
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ class DirectoryIterator(BatchFromFilesMixin, Iterator):
             without aspect ratio distortion. The image is cropped in the center
             with target aspect ratio before resizing.
         dtype: Dtype to use for generated arrays.
+        verbose: 1 or 0. Defaults to 1. 0=silent mode,
+            1=prints total number of samples and classes.
     """
     allowed_class_modes = {'categorical', 'binary', 'sparse', 'input', None}
 
@@ -89,7 +91,8 @@ def __init__(self,
                  subset=None,
                  interpolation='nearest',
                  keep_aspect_ratio=False,
-                 dtype='float32'):
+                 dtype='float32',
+                 verbose=1):
         super(DirectoryIterator, self).set_processing_attrs(image_data_generator,
                                                             target_size,
                                                             color_mode,
@@ -141,8 +144,11 @@ def __init__(self,
             self.classes[i:i + len(classes)] = classes
             i += len(classes)
 
-        print('Found %d images belonging to %d classes.' %
-              (self.samples, self.num_classes))
+        if verbose == 0:
+            pass
+        else :
+            print('Found %d images belonging to %d classes.' %
+                  (self.samples, self.num_classes))
         pool.close()
         pool.join()
         self._filepaths = [
diff --git a/keras_preprocessing/image/image_data_generator.py b/keras_preprocessing/image/image_data_generator.py
index e3c29383..05ad6623 100644
--- a/keras_preprocessing/image/image_data_generator.py
+++ b/keras_preprocessing/image/image_data_generator.py
@@ -440,7 +440,8 @@ def flow_from_directory(self,
                             follow_links=False,
                             subset=None,
                             interpolation='nearest',
-                            keep_aspect_ratio=False):
+                            keep_aspect_ratio=False,
+                            verbose=1):
         """Takes the path to a directory & generates batches of augmented data.
 
         # Arguments
@@ -511,6 +512,8 @@ class subdirectories (default: False).
             keep_aspect_ratio: Boolean, whether to resize images to a target
                 size without aspect ratio distortion. The image is cropped in
                 the center with target aspect ratio before resizing.
+            verbose: 1 or 0. Defaults to 1. 0=silent mode,
+                 1=prints total number of samples and classes.
 
         # Returns
             A `DirectoryIterator` yielding tuples of `(x, y)`
@@ -536,7 +539,8 @@ class subdirectories (default: False).
             follow_links=follow_links,
             subset=subset,
             interpolation=interpolation,
-            dtype=self.dtype
+            dtype=self.dtype,
+            verbose=verbose
         )
 
     def flow_from_dataframe(self,