Quotes by Photographers

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

Everybody Criticized Someone Like Does Always Anything Public Who

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead. Imogen Cunningham

Success Wait About Know Talk Until Dead

You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. Imogen Cunningham

You Science Back Kind See Drop-Out Became Came America After

I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody. Imogen Cunningham

Myself Man Never Anybody

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph. Imogen Cunningham

Science Back Kind Photograph Drop-Out Became Came America Wanted After

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. Imogen Cunningham

Me Photographing Darkroom Never Couple Were Years Stop Stopped

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease. Imogen Cunningham

People Alive Silly Terrible Disease Who Keep

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket. Imogen Cunningham

Class Whatever Students Did Wastebasket

I hate big models. Imogen Cunningham

Hate Big Models

I don't resent anything. Imogen Cunningham

Anything Resent

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

Me People Mind Job Older Magazine He Than Did

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods. Imogen Cunningham

People Making Gods Human Human Beings Them Turn Beings

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men. Imogen Cunningham

Me Ugly Men Photograph Would Invited Like Said Hollywood Asked

Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods. Imogen Cunningham

People Well Making Gods Human Human Beings Them Turn Beings

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree. Imogen Cunningham

You Discuss Certain Certain Things Agree Things

Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment. Irving Penn

Alone Me Simple Pleasure Daylight Equipment Using

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity. Irving Penn

People Try Rest State Photograph Really Serenity

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader. Irving Penn

Joy World Severe Reader Greatest Subject May Interesting Portrait

Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader. Irving Penn

Woman Joy World Responsibility Severe Intrigue Photographers Vogue Feed Feel Reader Client Greatest Reads Stimulate Subject Trying May Interesting Kansas Who Many Her Portrait

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page. Irving Penn

Beautiful Way House Halfway Print Itself Just Page Thing

I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know. Irving Penn

Work You Few Control Too Tried Variables Outside Studio Failed Know Narrow Times Depart Quite Really Many

It's marvellous, marvellous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything! Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Will Nothing Everything Photograph Marvellous Going Much Fun Ever