Imogen Cunningham Quotes

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

Talent, Teaching, Learners

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
Imogen Cunningham

Head, Names, Drop

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
Imogen Cunningham

Someone, Public, Everybody

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

Work, Good, Rich

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
Imogen Cunningham

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

Woman, Down, Said

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.
Imogen Cunningham

Lives, Anybody, Influenced

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

Science, America, After

I don't know what love means.
Imogen Cunningham

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

Love, Hit, Jupiter

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

Success, Wait, Talk

I hate big models.
Imogen Cunningham

Hate, Big, Models

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

Stop, Couple, Darkroom

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

Life, Best, Place

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

Whatever, Students, Class

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

Human, Making, Turn

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

Great, Art, School

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

Men, Said, Ugly

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

Keep, Alive, Silly

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

Mind, Him, Head

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, Greatest, Person

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
Imogen Cunningham

Bad, Thought, Late

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: April 12, 1883

Died: June 24, 1976

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