Richard Avedon Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Lying, Writing, Mean

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

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, Persons

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• 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.

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  Forever, Records, Height

  "All About Audrey" by Pamela Fiori, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 23, 2013.

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

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  Running, Ambition, People

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

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  Thinking, People, Charm

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• 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.

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  Photography, Real, Portraits

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

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  Artist, Photographer, Wanted

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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.

  Richard Avedon

  Differences, People, Accomplishment

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• 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.

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  Photography, Portraits, Fiction

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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. 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.

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  Reading, Ideas, Excellence

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• 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

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  Way, Performances

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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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  Real, Expression, Gestures

  "Avedon's Women" by Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. December 13, 2013.

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• 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.

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  Photography, Art, Children

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

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  Portraits, Knows

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• Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.

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  High Heels, Legs, Advertising

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• 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.

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  Taken, Hands, Order

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• 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.

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  Dog, Taken, Home

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• 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.

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  Photography, Kindness, Mean

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• 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.

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  Fashion, Important, Way

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• He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone.

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  Sleep, Single Life

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• 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.

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  Photography, People, Portraits

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• 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.

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  Men, People, Tree

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

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  Vanity, House, Parent

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

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  Photography, Photographer, Made

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

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  People, Environment, Studios

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