Imogen Cunningham Quotes:- Imogen Cunningham (April 12, 1883 – June 23, 1976) was an American photographer known for her botanical photography, nudes, and industrial landscapes.
Inspirational 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?”-Imogen Cunningham
“Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There’s always someone who doesn’t like it.”-Imogen Cunningham
“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.”-Imogen Cunningham
“The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.”-Imogen Cunningham
“So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits them. None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.”-Imogen Cunningham
“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
“I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.”-Imogen Cunningham
Great Quotes By Photographer Imogene Cunningham
“Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow.”-Imogen Cunningham
“I just believe in working. I’m not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.”-Imogen Cunningham
“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
“I don’t love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.”-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
“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
“I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.”-Imogen Cunningham
“When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I’m older than Ansel and he has to mind me.”-Imogen Cunningham
“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
