Fashion is where I make my living. I’m not knocking it; it’s a pleasure to make a living that way. Then there’s the deeper pleasure of doing my portraits. Richard Avedon Read Quote
The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. Richard Avedon Read Quote
I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer. Richard Avedon Read Quote
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. Richard Avedon Read Quote
My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read. Richard Avedon Read Quote
People – running from unhappiness, hiding in power – are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs. Richard Avedon Read Quote
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. Richard Avedon Read Quote
