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“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Inspirational #Tomorrow #My Favorite
“The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Photography #Portraiture
“I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Men #Hollywood #Ugly
“None of us is born with the right face. Itâ€™s a tough job being a portrait photographer.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Jobs #Portraits #Faces
“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 face. Itâ€™s a tough job being a portrait photographer.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Jobs #People #Portraits
“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 have to have a certain talent.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Photography #Teaching #Thinking
“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?”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Faces #Firsts #Sides
“...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. You have to have it in you first, you don't learn it. The seeing eye is the important thing.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Photography #Eye #People
“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 nasty stories. I don't know.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Nice #Portraits #Doe
“It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Silly #People #Alive
“When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Silly #People #Ask Me
“I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Thinking #San Francisco #World
“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

#Couple #Years
“I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Waiting
“When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Artist #Desire #Portraits
“I don't know what love means.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Mean #Love Means
“I don't resent anything.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Resent
“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

#Thinking #Hands #People
“I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Men
“I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Class #Students
“I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#People #Turns #Humans
“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 not want me to become a photographer.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Photography #Art #Father
“Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.”
-- Imogen Cunningham
“Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Doe
“I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Thinking #Jupiter #World
“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

#Men #Puddles #Stealing
“I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#America #Kind #Photograph
“Get it out of your historic head.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Artist #Historic
“My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Artist #Names #Mind
“There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.”
-- Imogen Cunningham

#Artist #Certain #Agree

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