Top 38 Imogen Cunningham Quotes
#1. The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.
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#2. 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.
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#3. When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
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#4. 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.
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#6. I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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#7. 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?
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#8. I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
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#9. You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has row after row of people bending over and digging out carrots - that can be very tedious. And so it's only once in a while that something happens that is worth doing.
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#10. The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.
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#11. 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.
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#13. Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again
it never would have been the same. Start stealing!
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#14. 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.
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#17. None of us is born with the right face. It's a tough job being a portrait photographer.
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#20. 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.
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#21. I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.
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#22. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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#23. 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.
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#25. Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
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#26. I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?
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#27. I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.
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#29. There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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#30. I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
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#31. Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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#33. When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
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#34. When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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#35. You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.
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#36. Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.
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#37. I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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#38. I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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