Imogen Cunningham

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

“I was a photographer from the beginning, I have never done anything else.”

“I turned my camera on anything I saw which excited me.”

“I don't think there's any such thing as a woman's point of view. I just think that a woman is a human being.”

“You must be able to gain an understanding at short notice and close range of the beauties of character, intellect, and spirit so as to be able to figure them out.”

“My main interest in my work is in people. I've been photographing people since 1910.”

“So many people dislike themselves so much... I think the only reason I've had any success is because I really like people.”

“I don’t resent being a female photographer, but I don’t do a lot of things that I can’t do, like carry heavy equipment.”

“I have to have a subject to be moved. I'm not a photographer who's going to go out and just shoot.”

“I don't know who the great photographers are. I know my favorites.”

“There are too many people who have been taught to think that they are not creative.”

“I’ve been photographing for seventy years, and I still don’t know how to do it.”