Imogen Cunningham Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.”
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“The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.”
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“I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.”
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“None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.”
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“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. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.”
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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 have to have a certain talent.”
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“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?”
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“...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.”
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“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.”
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“It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.”
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“When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.”
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“I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.”
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“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.”
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“I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.”
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“When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.”
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“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.”
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“I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.”
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“I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.”
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“I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.”
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“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.”
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“Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.”
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“Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.”
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“I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.”
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“Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!”
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“I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.”
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“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.”
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“There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.”
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