In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is that the inside is recordable only insofar as it is apparent on the outside...Very often… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page. — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from the north… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger. — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today. — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say the photographs… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio,… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
