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Richard Avedon Quotes

American - Photographer | May 15, 1923 - October 1, 2004

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.

Knowledge Picture Someone Portrait

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

Artist Never Photographer Wanted

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

Truth None Accurate Them Photographs

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Art You Anything Level

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.

Art Control Think Encounter Between

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.

Myself Look Feeling Pictures See

Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.

Advertising High Heels Legs High

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.

Time Moment Lie Ugly Camera Choose

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

People Me More Photograph Portraits

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

Time Soul Picture Possible Up Take

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.

Hope People World Accomplishment

Faces are the ledgers of our experience.

Experience Faces Our

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