Imogen Cunningham Quotes

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• 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. They…
• The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.
• ...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it.…
• Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!
• Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.
• A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?
• Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
• I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
• I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
• I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
• 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.
• I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.
• I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
• When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
• It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
• So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right…
• Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice…
• I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did…
• None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.
• I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

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