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Inspirational Quotes by Richard Avedon
- All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
- He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone.
- Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.
- The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.
- I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment
- A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed
- Faces are the ledgers of our experience.
- Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.
- I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.
- I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.
- 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…
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