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Photography Quotes by Richard Avedon
- All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
- I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.
- 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…
- I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Photography Quotes
- All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. — Richard Avedon
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
- It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey
- Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions. — David Bailey
- I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it. — 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
- 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
- There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. — Ansel Adams