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Photograph Quotes by Richard Avedon
- All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
- The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.
- My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
- I don't really remember the day when I stood behind my camera with Henry Kissinger on the other side. I am sure he doesn't remember…
- 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…
- A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part…
- For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that's-she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when…
- 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…
- There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like an author creates…
- 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?
- The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Photograph Quotes
- All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. — Richard Avedon
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- You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. — David Bailey
- Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character… — David Bailey
- I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to… — David Bailey
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- A good photograph is knowing where to stand. — Ansel Adams
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams
- A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams
- A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. — Ansel Adams
- Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. — Ansel Adams