Imogen Cunningham Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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?”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.”

“I don't know what love means.”

“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.”