There’s always been a separation between fashion and what I call my deeper work. Richard Avedon Read Quote
I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn’t look like that guy in the pictures. Richard Avedon Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Click! In other words, I’m in a very controlling position, and I can bring… and I’ve already… if the camera’s on you, your face is very concentrated. You’re listening. You don’t know what I’m going to say next, and now you’re smiling. All these things are the things I work with. Richard Avedon Read Quote
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. Richard Avedon Read Quote
People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion. Richard Avedon Read Quote
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
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. Richard Avedon Read Quote
I hate cameras. They interfere, they’re always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. Richard Avedon Read Quote
Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same. Richard Avedon Read Quote