When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
- Imogen Cunningham
Money, Desire, Portraits
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.
- Imogen Cunningham
Living, Could, Stories, Nasty
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
Think, Own, Other, Little People
I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
- Imogen Cunningham
Class, Students, Whatever, Wastebasket
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.
- Imogen Cunningham
Mind, Drop, Need, Vacant
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
Art, Thought, Brought, Art School
When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
- Imogen Cunningham
Questions, Silly, Private, Discuss
There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
- Imogen Cunningham
Things, Certain Things, Discuss
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
Think, I Think, Very, Reasonably
Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
- Imogen Cunningham
Always, Everybody, Public, Criticized
When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
- Imogen Cunningham
Mind, People, Than, Magazine
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
- Imogen Cunningham
Human Beings, Making, Gods, Beings
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
Woman, Side, Sat, Wrong Side
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
Couple, Stopped, Darkroom, Photographing
I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
- Imogen Cunningham
Love, Think, Hit, Jupiter
I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
- Imogen Cunningham
Hollywood, Photograph, Would, Asked
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
- Imogen Cunningham
Kind, Wanted, Became, Photograph
I don't resent anything.
- Imogen Cunningham
Anything, Resent
When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
- Imogen Cunningham
Drop, Need, Head, Names
I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.
- Imogen Cunningham
San Francisco, Francisco, San
It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
- Imogen Cunningham
Alive, Disease, Keep, Silly
Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.
- Imogen Cunningham
How, Anybody, Lives, Influenced
I hate big models.
- Imogen Cunningham
Hate, Big, Models
Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
- Imogen Cunningham
Bad, Some, Discovered, People Say
Get it out of your historic head.
- Imogen Cunningham
Head, Get, Your, Historic
Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
- Imogen Cunningham
Well, Human Beings, Making, Gods
You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.
- Imogen Cunningham
Kind, See, Became, Drop-Out
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