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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that. — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me. — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree. — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
