65 Quotes by Imogen Cunningham

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I just believe in working. I’m not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.

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

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.