Imogen Cunningham

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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 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.”

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

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