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A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.
Richard Avedon
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Richard Avedon
Age: 81 †
Born: 1923
Born: May 15
Died: 2004
Died: October 1
Designer
Fashion Photographer
Photographer
New York City
New York
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I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.
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My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
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All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
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To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.
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I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.
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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.
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Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.
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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
People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.
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Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.
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Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.
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I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment
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One man's fantasy is another man's job.
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A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed
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If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy.
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He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.
Richard Avedon
