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Fashion is where I make my li...

Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it; it's a pleasure to make a living that way. Then there's the deeper pleasure of doing my portraits.

Richard Avedon 68 quotes

A photographic portrait is a ...

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

Richard Avedon 68 quotes

Camera lies all the time. It’...

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 you’ve made a choice, you’re lying about something larger. Lying is an ugly word. I don’t mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

Richard Avedon 68 quotes

I don't really remember the d...

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 it either. But this photograph is here now to prove that no amount of kindness on my part could make this photograph mean exactly what he.. or even I.. wanted it to mean. It's a reminder of the wonder and terror that is a photograph.

Richard Avedon 68 quotes

A portrait photographer depen...

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 else willing to take part in a fiction he cannot possibly know about.

Richard Avedon 68 quotes

I've photographed just about ...

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 difference once again.

Richard Avedon 68 quotes

I can see myself as a very ol...

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 Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people.

Richard Avedon 68 quotes

My parents put the New Yorker...

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.

Richard Avedon 68 quotes

Camera lies all the time. It'...

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 you've made a choice, you're lying about something larger. 'Lying' is an ugly word. I don't mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

Richard Avedon 68 quotes

If each photograph steals a b...

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?

Richard Avedon 68 quotes

There's always been a separat...

There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my deeper work.

Richard Avedon 68 quotes

Real people move, they bear w...

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 photograph.

Richard Avedon 68 quotes

The moment an emotion or fact...

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

Richard Avedon 68 quotes

How many pictures have you to...

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 guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people.

Richard Avedon 68 quotes

All photographs are accurate....

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Richard Avedon 68 quotes

A photographic portrait is a ...

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks.

Richard Avedon 68 quotes

Sometimes I think all my pict...

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

Richard Avedon 68 quotes

What ends up in your scrapboo...

What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people.

Richard Avedon 68 quotes

I see pictures of myself and ...

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.

Richard Avedon 68 quotes

People - running from unhappi...

People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

Richard Avedon 68 quotes

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