65 Quotes by 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?

I photograph anything that light falls on.

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

When you do portraits professionally it’s not a desire, it’s for money.

Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again – it never would have been the same. Start stealing!

The thing that’s fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

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

I’d never kill myself for a man. I wouldn’t do it for anybody.

When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I’m older than Ansel and he has to mind me.