Imogen Cunningham Quotes

I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?

Get it out of your historic 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.

I don't know what love means.

I hate big models.

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

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

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

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

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

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

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.

I photograph anything that light falls on.

I don't resent anything.

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

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.

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

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

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.

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

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