Irving Penn Quotes

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

~ Irving Penn

Beautiful Halfway House Itself Just Page Print Thing Way

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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

Am Because Best Best Way Care Children Earn I Am Know Money Photographer Professional Require Take Take Care Way Wife

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I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

~ Irving Penn

Anything Being Curse Enough Get I Can Long Look Obsessed Photographer

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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

Admire Art Ever Feed Go Hunger I Can More Out Photographs Photography Than

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I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

~ Irving Penn

Always Awe Camera Instrument Part Recognize Stood

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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

Control Depart Failed Few I Can Know Many Narrow Outside Quite Really Studio Times Too Tried Variables Work You

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Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say the photographs burn on the page . After some years, I began to understand that what they wanted of me was simply a nice, sweet, clean-looking image of a lovely young woman.

~ Irving Penn

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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

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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

Anticipation Brushing Each Hours Liquid Must Over Perfect Preparing Print Reaching Sheet Spent Thousands Years

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Photographing a cake can be art.

~ Irving Penn

Art Cake Photographing

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

~ Irving Penn

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The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

~ Irving Penn

Greatest Interesting Joy May Portrait Reader Severe Subject World

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Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

~ Irving Penn

Alone Daylight Equipment Me Pleasure Simple Using

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What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

~ Irving Penn

People Photograph Really Rest Serenity State Try

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16 June, 1917

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07 October, 2009

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