Quotes from Imogen Cunningham

I hate big models.

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

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

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

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.

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.

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

Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow.

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

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

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

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

I photograph anything that light falls on.

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