When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me. Imogen Cunningham More Quotes by Imogen Cunningham More Quotes From Imogen Cunningham Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow. Imogen Cunningham photographyinspirationalart The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet. Imogen Cunningham photographyjobsthinking Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it. Imogen Cunningham artistdoe 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 had a good time no matter what I had to photograph. Imogen Cunningham photographypeoplethinking The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike. Imogen Cunningham portraiturefascinatingphotography 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 photographyteachingthinking Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow. Imogen Cunningham best-picturetomorrow It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease. Imogen Cunningham artistsillypeople 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. Imogen Cunningham portraitsjobspeople I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men. Imogen Cunningham photographyartistmen 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 artisthandsthinking ...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 eyephotographypeople I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view. Imogen Cunningham individualviewsbelieve There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree. Imogen Cunningham agreecertainartist I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us. Imogen Cunningham artistshould-havethinking None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer. Imogen Cunningham portraitsfacesjobs Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives. Imogen Cunningham 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 puddlesstealingmen 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 photographyfatherart You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has row after row of people bending over and digging out carrots - that can be very tedious. And so it's only once in a while that something happens that is worth doing. Imogen Cunningham bookpeopleinteresting
