Important Quotes by Imogen Cunningham

I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or…

— Imogen Cunningham

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

I wasn't very ambitious. I think that's the solution. I just took things as they came. I wouldn't say I didn't have any problem,…

— Imogen Cunningham

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.…

— Imogen Cunningham

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

— Imogen Cunningham

You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.

— Imogen Cunningham

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

— Imogen Cunningham

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

— Imogen Cunningham

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

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

— Imogen Cunningham

Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with…

— Imogen Cunningham

So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the…

— Imogen Cunningham