Quotes of Richard Avedon - somelinesforyou

“ Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free. ”

- Richard Avedon

“ To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard. ”

- Richard Avedon

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

- Richard Avedon

“ 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

“ My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. ”

- Richard Avedon

“ 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

“ 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 that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are. ”

- Richard Avedon

“ There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ”

- Richard Avedon

“ 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

“ There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ”

- Richard Avedon

“ 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

“ I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable. ”

- Richard Avedon

“ 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 that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are. ”

- Richard Avedon

“ My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. ”

- Richard Avedon

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

- Richard Avedon

“ 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

“ 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 that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are. ”

- Richard Avedon

“ There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ”

- Richard Avedon

“ My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. ”

- Richard Avedon

“ My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. ”

- Richard Avedon

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

- Richard Avedon

“ There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ”

- Richard Avedon

“ 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 that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are. ”

- Richard Avedon

“ 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

“ There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ”

- Richard Avedon

“ 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

“ 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

“ My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. ”

- Richard Avedon

“ There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ”

- Richard Avedon

“ There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ”

- Richard Avedon
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