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, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know. — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
Most of the time the ones who dislike the pictures the most confirm to me that the picture has hit home and is probably truer than I know. Nobody minds a boring picture, they mind a picture that has gotten… — 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
