Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.
Irving PennI 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 PennI can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
Irving PennMost 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 PennI share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from the north sky that sets it beyond any other illumination. It is a light of such penetrating clarity that even a simple object lying by chance in such a light takes on an inner glow, almost a voluptuousness.
Irving Penn