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Photographer Quotes by Richard Avedon
- All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
- I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.
- A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone…
- Photography has always reminded me of the second child.. trying to prove itself. The fact that it wasn't really considered an art.. that it was…
- There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my 'deeper' work. Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it.…
- And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though…
- The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the making…
- 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…
- I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.
- 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…
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- 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
- There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams
- Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — 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