Imogen Cunningham Quotes


"I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Success, Talk)

"I don't resent anything."
- Imogen Cunningham
"I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Love, World)

"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Public)

"Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives."
- 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
(Related: First, Woman, Wrong)

"I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Science, America)

"I don't know what love means."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Love)

"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
(Related: Mind, Names)

"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
(Related: Living, Portraits)

"When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Life, People, Questions, Silly)

"When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Names)

"Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: People, Gods)

"There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree."
- Imogen Cunningham
"Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Thought, People)

"When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: People, Job, Mind)

"It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: People, Disease, Silly)

"I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Man)

"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
(Related: Work, People, Being, Poor)

"I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Men, Hollywood, Ugly)

"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Money, Desire, Portraits)

"I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Life, World)

"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
(Related: Art, Father, Thought, School, Want)

"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
(Related: Years)

"I hate big models."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Hate)

"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
(Related: Talent, People, Photography, Teaching)

"I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: People, Gods)

"I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Class, Students)

"You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America."
- Imogen Cunningham
(Related: Science, America)