Irving Penn Quotes
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Irving Penn Quotes & Sayings
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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
The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Working on photography is working on oneself.
— Irving Penn
He wished they could just be naked in his bed and not worry about words. Talking was overrated anyway.
— Savannah Stuart
A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
— Irving Penn
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
— Joseph Joubert
The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.
— Laura Hillenbrand
I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes
— Irving Penn
Photographing a cake can be art.
— Irving Penn
I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me.
— Helena Christensen
Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm.
— Patricia Cornwell
One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.
— Mary Ellen Mark
We all behave as though what we think is true, is true.
— Mark Thomas
Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.
— Irving Penn
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
I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
— Irving Penn