Best Richard Avedon Quotes
- Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. All
- If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture? Bit
- The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them. Inspirational
- I hate cameras. They interfere, they’re always in the way. I wish: if I could just work with my eyes alone. To get a satisfactory… All
- If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy. Alone
- Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply… All
- I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment Always Prefer
- Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a… Bear
- A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed Funny
- You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface… All
- Faces are the ledgers of our experience. Experience
- Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art. Art
- People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion. Beauty
- I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas. Almost Never
- I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer. Artist
- I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures. Always Knew
- My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read. Crib
- 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… Adorable
- 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… Man
- I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the… Accomplishment
- Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free. Chains
- A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an… Accurate
- We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the… All
- i'm beginning to feel like this. caught the incredible sunshine just in the nick of time today on my walk. the wall of rain approaching… Along
- i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people Ability