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Richard Avedon Quotes

What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they’re screaming the next minute. I’ve never seen a family album of screaming people Picture Quote #1

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth Picture Quote #1

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable Picture Quote #1

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable Picture Quote #1

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed Picture Quote #1

I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera. I cannot lift her to greater heights. She is already there. I can only record. I cannot interpret her. There is no going further than who she is. She has achieved in herself her ultimate portrait Picture Quote #1

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I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are Picture Quote #1

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read Picture Quote #1

How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they’re screaming the next minute. I’ve never seen a family album of screaming people Picture Quote #1

I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won’t be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I’ll be photographing other old people Picture Quote #1

When you pose for a photograph, it’s behind a smile that isn’t yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people Picture Quote #1

It’s not hard being great occasionally. It’s difficult to be good consistently Picture Quote #1

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People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs Picture Quote #1

My photographs don’t go below the surface. They don’t go below anything. They’re readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues Picture Quote #1

Click! In other words, I’m in a very controlling position, and I can bring... and I’ve already... if the camera’s on you, your face is very concentrated. You’re listening. You don’t know what I’m going to say next, and now you’re smiling. All these things are the things I work with Picture Quote #1

I hate cameras. They interfere, they’re always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone Picture Quote #1

Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you... the moment you’ve made a choice, you’re lying about something larger. ‘Lying’ is an ugly word. I don’t mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same Picture Quote #1

A portrait isn’t a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth Picture Quote #1

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There is no truth in photography. There is no truth about anyone’s person Picture Quote #1

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer Picture Quote #1

I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas Picture Quote #1

People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion Picture Quote #1

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art Picture Quote #1

Just advertising departments with legs and high heels Picture Quote #1

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Faces are the ledgers of our experience Picture Quote #1

He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone Picture Quote #1

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me Picture Quote #1

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible Picture Quote #1

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard Picture Quote #1

I think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people Picture Quote #1

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What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they’re screaming the next minute. I’ve never seen a family album of screaming people. (Richard Avedon Quotes) All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth (Richard Avedon Quotes) I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable (Richard Avedon Quotes) I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable (Richard Avedon Quotes) A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed (Richard Avedon Quotes) I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera. I cannot lift her to greater heights. She is already there. I can only record. I cannot interpret her. There is no going further than who she is. She has achieved in herself her ultimate portrait (Richard Avedon Quotes) I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are (Richard Avedon Quotes) My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read (Richard Avedon Quotes) How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they’re screaming the next minute. I’ve never seen a family album of screaming people (Richard Avedon Quotes) I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won’t be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I’ll be photographing other old people (Richard Avedon Quotes) When you pose for a photograph, it’s behind a smile that isn’t yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people. (Richard Avedon Quotes) It’s not hard being great occasionally. It’s difficult to be good consistently. (Richard Avedon Quotes) People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs. (Richard Avedon Quotes) My photographs don’t go below the surface. They don’t go below anything. They’re readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. (Richard Avedon Quotes) Click! In other words, I’m in a very controlling position, and I can bring... and I’ve already... if the camera’s on you, your face is very concentrated. You’re listening. You don’t know what I’m going to say next, and now you’re smiling. All these things are the things I work with. (Richard Avedon Quotes) I hate cameras. They interfere, they’re always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. (Richard Avedon Quotes) Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you... the moment you’ve made a choice, you’re lying about something larger. ‘Lying’ is an ugly word. I don’t mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same. (Richard Avedon Quotes) A portrait isn’t a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth (Richard Avedon Quotes) There is no truth in photography. There is no truth about anyone’s person (Richard Avedon Quotes) I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer (Richard Avedon Quotes) I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas (Richard Avedon Quotes) People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion (Richard Avedon Quotes) Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art (Richard Avedon Quotes) Just advertising departments with legs and high heels (Richard Avedon Quotes) Faces are the ledgers of our experience (Richard Avedon Quotes) He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone (Richard Avedon Quotes) Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me (Richard Avedon Quotes) I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible (Richard Avedon Quotes) To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard (Richard Avedon Quotes) I think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people (Richard Avedon Quotes)

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