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

- Imogen Cunningham

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

- Imogen Cunningham

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

I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.

- Imogen Cunningham

I don't resent anything.

- Imogen Cunningham

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

- Imogen Cunningham

Get it out of your historic head.

- Imogen Cunningham

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.

- Imogen Cunningham

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

- Imogen Cunningham

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

- Imogen Cunningham

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

- Imogen Cunningham

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

- Imogen Cunningham

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

- Imogen Cunningham

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

- Imogen Cunningham

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

- Imogen Cunningham

I don't know what love means.

- Imogen Cunningham

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

- Imogen Cunningham

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

- Imogen Cunningham

I hate big models.

- Imogen Cunningham

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

- Imogen Cunningham