Imogen Cunningham

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Imogen Cunningham

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

— Imogen Cunningham

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I…

— Imogen Cunningham

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

— Imogen Cunningham

...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula…

— Imogen Cunningham

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of…

— Imogen Cunningham

Get it out of your historic head.

— Imogen Cunningham

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

— Imogen Cunningham

Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

— Imogen Cunningham

Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow.

— Imogen Cunningham

I hate big models.

— Imogen Cunningham

I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.

— Imogen Cunningham

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

— Imogen Cunningham

The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

— Imogen Cunningham

I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.

— Imogen Cunningham