Imogen Cunningham

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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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Quotes by Imogen Cunningham