Top 27 Quotes by Richard Avedon

About Richard Avedon

These are some quotes by American author Richard Avedon Photographer, who lived between May 15, 1923 and October 1, 2004.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

Richard Avedon

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Richard Avedon

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is 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.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Avedon

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.

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

I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.

I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.

Richard Avedon

Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.

Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.

Richard Avedon

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