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Irving Penn Quotes

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn’t go to it out of hunger Picture Quote #1

Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I’m trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader Picture Quote #1

The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us Picture Quote #1

Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today Picture Quote #1

I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes Picture Quote #1

Working on photography is working on oneself Picture Quote #1

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Photographing a cake can be art Picture Quote #1

I’ve tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I’ve failed. I’ve tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can’t control. I’m really quite narrow, you know Picture Quote #1

I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That’s the curse of being a photographer Picture Quote #1

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective Picture Quote #1

In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is that the inside is recordable only insofar as it is apparent on the outside... Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe Picture Quote #1

Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print Picture Quote #1

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I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn’t go to it out of hunger Picture Quote #1

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity Picture Quote #1

I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children Picture Quote #1

Most of the time the ones who dislike the pictures the most confirm to me that the picture has hit home and is probably truer than I know. Nobody minds a boring picture, they mind a picture that has gotten to the soft core Picture Quote #1

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page Picture Quote #1

Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe Picture Quote #1

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I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn’t go to it out of hunger. (Irving Penn Quotes) Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I’m trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader (Irving Penn Quotes) The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us (Irving Penn Quotes) Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today (Irving Penn Quotes) I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes (Irving Penn Quotes) Working on photography is working on oneself (Irving Penn Quotes) Photographing a cake can be art (Irving Penn Quotes) I’ve tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I’ve failed. I’ve tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can’t control. I’m really quite narrow, you know (Irving Penn Quotes) I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That’s the curse of being a photographer (Irving Penn Quotes) A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective (Irving Penn Quotes) In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is that the inside is recordable only insofar as it is apparent on the outside... Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe (Irving Penn Quotes) Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print (Irving Penn Quotes) I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn’t go to it out of hunger (Irving Penn Quotes) What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity (Irving Penn Quotes) I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children (Irving Penn Quotes) Most of the time the ones who dislike the pictures the most confirm to me that the picture has hit home and is probably truer than I know. Nobody minds a boring picture, they mind a picture that has gotten to the soft core (Irving Penn Quotes) A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page (Irving Penn Quotes) Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe (Irving Penn Quotes)