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Richard Avedon Quotes

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph Picture Quote #1

If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy Picture Quote #1

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion Picture Quote #1

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 opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth Picture Quote #1

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 is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people Picture Quote #1

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 of the photograph as what he’s wearing or how he looks. He’s implicated in what’s happening, and he has a certain real power over the result Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 considered a craft.. has trapped almost every serious photographer Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I’ve lost what’s really there been seduced by someone else’s standard of beauty or by the sitter’s own idea of the best in him. That’s not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest Picture Quote #1

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 I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible Picture Quote #1

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 of a portrait is all about Picture Quote #1

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When I was a boy, my family took great care with our snapshots. We really planned them. We made compositions. We posed in front of expensive cars, homes, that werent ours. We borrowed dogs. Almost every family picture taken of us when I was young had a different borrowed dog in it Picture Quote #1

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time Picture Quote #1

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 be my own Picture Quote #1

I believe that you’ve got to love your work so much that it is all you want to do Picture Quote #1

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free Picture Quote #1

I hate cameras. They interfere, they’re always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn’t look like that guy in the pictures Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

The pictures have a reality for me that the people don’t. It is through the photographs that I know them Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph (Richard Avedon Quotes) If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy (Richard Avedon Quotes) The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion (Richard Avedon Quotes) 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 opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth (Richard Avedon Quotes) 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 is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people (Richard Avedon Quotes) 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 of the photograph as what he’s wearing or how he looks. He’s implicated in what’s happening, and he has a certain real power over the result (Richard Avedon Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 considered a craft.. has trapped almost every serious photographer (Richard Avedon Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I’ve lost what’s really there been seduced by someone else’s standard of beauty or by the sitter’s own idea of the best in him. That’s not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest (Richard Avedon Quotes) 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 I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible (Richard Avedon Quotes) 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 of a portrait is all about (Richard Avedon Quotes) When I was a boy, my family took great care with our snapshots. We really planned them. We made compositions. We posed in front of expensive cars, homes, that werent ours. We borrowed dogs. Almost every family picture taken of us when I was young had a different borrowed dog in it (Richard Avedon Quotes) Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time (Richard Avedon Quotes) 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 be my own (Richard Avedon Quotes) I believe that you’ve got to love your work so much that it is all you want to do (Richard Avedon Quotes) Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free (Richard Avedon Quotes) I hate cameras. They interfere, they’re always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone (Richard Avedon Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) The pictures have a reality for me that the people don’t. It is through the photographs that I know them (Richard Avedon Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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