Desire Quote by Imogen Cunningham Download Open image “When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.” — Imogen Cunningham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Money Painting Portraits
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography. — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it. — William Dobell Copy Share Image
When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the… — Giles Duley Copy Share Image
It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself. — Astrid Kirchherr Copy Share Image
Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much - there's… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain. — Helmut Newton 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, but I didn't care. I didn't think I was going to save the world by doing photography as some of these people do. I was just having a good time doing it, and so I still… — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share
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
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
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
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… — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image