Imogen Cunningham Quotes
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...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.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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I don't know what love means.
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I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.
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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.
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Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
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I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
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The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.
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I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.
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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.
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The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.
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When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
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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.
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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?
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It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
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Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!
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Get it out of your historic head.
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None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.
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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.
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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.
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I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
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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.
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When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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I don't resent anything.
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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.
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