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1. "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
2. "I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer." ~ Irving Penn
3. "Photographing a cake can be art." ~ Irving Penn
4. "A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page." ~ Irving Penn
5. "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
6. "I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel." ~ Irving Penn
7. "Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment." ~ Irving Penn
8. "What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity." ~ Irving Penn
9. "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
10. "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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