Imogen Cunningham famous quotes

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Inspirational #Tomorrow #My Favorite

The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Photography #Portraiture

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Men #Hollywood #Ugly

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Jobs #Portraits #Faces

So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Jobs #People #Portraits

I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Photography #Teaching #Thinking

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Faces #Firsts #Sides

...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it. You have to have it in you first, you don't learn it. The seeing eye is the important thing.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Photography #Eye #People

Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Nice #Portraits #Doe

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Silly #People #Alive

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Silly #People #Ask Me

I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Thinking #San Francisco #World

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Couple #Years

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Waiting

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Artist #Desire #Portraits

I don't know what love means.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Mean #Love Means

I don't resent anything.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Resent

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Thinking #Hands #People

I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Men

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Class #Students

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#People #Turns #Humans

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Photography #Art #Father

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.
-- Imogen Cunningham

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Doe

I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Thinking #Jupiter #World

Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Men #Puddles #Stealing

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#America #Kind #Photograph

Get it out of your historic head.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Artist #Historic

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Artist #Names #Mind

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Artist #Certain #Agree

When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Jobs #Artist #People

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
-- Imogen Cunningham

#People