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" 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

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

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" I don't know what love means. "

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

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" When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that. "

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" Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods. "

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" I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead. "

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

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" 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. "

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" I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods. "

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" Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it. "

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" 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. "

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" Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives. "

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

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" I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody. "

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" Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that. "

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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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" 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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