Top 30 Quotes by 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.

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

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.

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

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

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

I hate big models.

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