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

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

Get it out of your historic head.
Imogen Cunningham

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
Imogen Cunningham

I don't know what love means.
Imogen Cunningham

I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
Imogen Cunningham

I don't resent anything.
Imogen Cunningham

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
Imogen Cunningham

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

I hate big models.
Imogen Cunningham

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

I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.
Imogen Cunningham

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
Imogen Cunningham

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham

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

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
Imogen Cunningham

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

I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
Imogen Cunningham

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
Imogen Cunningham