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Richard Avedon quotes

Ocupation: Photographer

Life: May 15, 1923 - October 1, 2004

Birthday: May 15

Death: October 1

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

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Photography, People, Portraits, Camera And Photography, Capturing A Moment Photography

quote start with a style and you are in chains start with an idea and you are free richard avedon Quotes

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

Topics: Art, Artist, People

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

source: - "Richard Avedon and Photo Booth’s New Look" by Maria Lokke, www.newyorker.com. September 11, 2012.

Topics: Inspirational, Photography, Photographer, Inspirational Photography, Photojournalism

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.

Topics: Photography, Wake Up, Essentials

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?

source: - "Picture of the week: Women, by Richard Avedon" by Hannah Booth, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2013.

Topics: Giving Up, Soul, Pieces

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

Topics: Hate, Eye, Wish

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.

Topics: Reading, Ideas, Excellence, Standards Of Beauty, Below The Surface

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

Topics: Portraits, Real Power

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.

Topics: Photography, Doctors, People, Fortune Teller

i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people

Topics: Thinking, People, Charm

Snapshots that have been taken of me working show something I was not aware of at all, that over and over again I'm holding my own body or my own hands exactly like the person I'm photographing. I never knew I did that, and obviously what I'm doing is trying to feel, actually physically feel, the way he or she feels at the moment I'm photographing them in order to deepen the sense of connection.

Topics: Taken, Hands, Order

The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.

Topics: Reality, People, Photograph

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.

Topics: Photography, Facts, Portraits, Digital Photography, Photo Shoots

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

Topics: Vanity, Parent, House, Vanity Fair, New Yorkers

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.

Topics: Photography, Fiction, Portraits

For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that's-she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when the night was over and the white wine was over and the dancing was over, she sat in the corner like a child, with everything gone. I saw her sitting quietly without expression on her face, and I walked towards her but I wouldn't photograph her without her knowledge of it. And as I came with the camera, I saw that she was not saying no.

Topics: Children, Wine, Night, White Wine, Sitting Quietly

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

Topics: Freedom, Ideas, Style

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

Topics: Photography, Art, Thinking, Uncontrollable, Photography By Photographers

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Topics: Art, Levels

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.

Topics: Photography, Real, Doe

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.

Topics: Differences, People, Accomplishment

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

Topics: Photography, Photographer, Made

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.

Topics: Real, Moving, People

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.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Photography, Kindness, Mean, Kissinger, Henry Kissinger

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

Topics: Facts, Emotion, Opinion

I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera. I cannot lift her to greater heights. She is already there. I can only record. I cannot interpret her. There is no going further than who she is. She has achieved in herself her ultimate portrait.

Topics: Forever, Records, Height, Audrey, Greater Heights

One man's fantasy is another man's job.

Topics: Jobs, Men, Fantasy

There is no truth in photography. There is no truth about anyone's person.

Topics: Photography, Persons

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. It's a pleasure to make a living that way. It's pleasure and then there's the deeper pleasure of doing my portraits. It's not important what I consider myself to be, but I consider myself to be a portrait photographer.

Topics: Fashion, Important, Way

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.

Topics: Way, Cameras, Portraits

I believe that you've got to love your work so much that it is all you want to do.

Topics: Love You, Believe, Want, Love Your Work

It's in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface [sic] and Candor, without being run over, that I'm confronted with the questions about photography that matter most to me.

Topics: Photography, Running, Trying

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

Topics: White, Light, Narrative

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.

Topics: Reading, Photographer, Clue

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

Topics: Guy, Feelings, Looks, That Guy, Pictures Of Myself

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.

Topics: Children, Hate, Men, Good Family, Family Man

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

Topics: Artist, Photographer, Wanted

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.

Topics: Dog, Taken, Home, Expensive Cars, Picture Taken

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.

Topics: Men, People, Tree, Wheelchairs

He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone.

Topics: Sleep, Single Life

Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.

Topics: High Heels, Legs, Advertising

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.

Topics: Photography, People, Portraits, Behind A Smile

People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.

Topics: Confusion, People, Roles

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

Topics: Running, Ambition, People

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

Topics: Thinking, Sometimes

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 a character. She understood photography, and she also understood what makes a great photograph. She related to it as if she were giving a performance. She gave more to the still camera than any actress-any woman- I've ever photographed.

Topics: Photography, Character, Giving

If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy.

Topics: Photography, Eye, Want

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.

Topics: Photography, Thinking, May

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment

Topics: People, Environment

I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.

Topics: Ideas, People

We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.--PERFORMANCE

source: - Deena Metzger (1981). “The woman who slept with men to take the war out of them ; & Tree”

Topics: Way, Performances

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 from the west desert was pretty spectacular, too. along with being gorgeous, it was sooo muddy. which made driving home in no shoes so very fun :) if only i could post photos here! a picture is worth a thousand words, yes? 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.

Topics: Photography, Wall, Fun, Driving Home, Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

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.

Topics: Photography, Art, Children

You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is manipulate that surface-gesture, costume, expression-radically and correctly.

Topics: Real, Expression, Gestures, Stripping Away, Stripping

Faces are the ledgers of our experience.

Topics: Faces

It's not hard being great occasionally. It's difficult to be good consistently.

Topics: Difficult, Be Good, Hard

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

Topics: Portraits, Facts, Opinion

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.

Topics: Lying, Writing, Mean

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

Topics: Running, Ambition, People

Marilyn Monroe gave more to the still camera than any actress, any woman I've ever photographed; infinitely more patient, more demanding of herself and more comfortable in front of the camera than away from it.

Topics: Cameras, Actresses, Patient

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