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Irving Penn has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to…
• A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
• Most of the time the ones who dislike the pictures the most confirm to me that the picture has hit home and…
• I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care…
• Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of…
• Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue,…
• I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
• 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…
• Photographing a cake can be art.
• I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes
• In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of…
• Working on photography is working on oneself.

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