Author: Richard Avedon

Quotes

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

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

- Richard Avedon

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

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

- Richard Avedon

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?

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

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

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

- Richard Avedon

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.

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

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

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

- Richard Avedon

Faces are the ledgers of our experience.

Faces are the ledgers of our experience.

- Richard Avedon

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

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

- Richard Avedon

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

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

- Richard Avedon

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