Richard Avedon Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

KnowledgePictureSomeonePortrait

God's got you in the palm of His hand. You won't leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you're going to be here.

Joel Osteen

GodTimeYouHandPalmLeave

Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.

Ang Lee

MotivationEmotionsServeCharacters

But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked.

Michael Behe

VisionEyesSimpleDevelopmentMore

Black, white, rural, urban, Democrat, Republican, independent. People who come from both ends of the socio-economic spectrum. Male, female. Young and old alike. This is our Kentucky.

Matt Bevin

PeopleBlackWhiteYoungIndependent

I speak a little Portuguese, but my daughter speaks it better than me. I always feel that Italy is my home, but it is important for my husband that we also live in France. Sometimes we live as a family all together, but as we are two working actors, sometimes we have to be apart. Sometimes I'm shooting a movie; sometimes he is.

Monica Bellucci

FamilyHomeLiveDaughterTogether

My father made bridal dresses, which he sold wholesale, and always wanted me to join him. He looked upon what I did as precarious and frivolous - except that he loved it when my name was in the papers.

Denis Norden

FatherMeNameLovedDressesHim

I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wasn't crooked, there is something moving for me about having a mouth exactly like my father's.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

SmileFatherGirlI AmMeSister

As a reader since very early, I have found myself drawn to rants.

Claire Messud

MyselfEarlyFoundVerySinceDrawn

Buy foods from nearby farms and have that food served in the cafeteria.

Alice Waters

FoodBuyFoodsNearbyServedFarms

I greatly blame Congress, spurred on by its personal hatred of Nixon, for passing legislation in June through August of '73 which embargoed any further U.S. help to South Vietnam.

Alistair Horne

BlameHelpCongressPersonalHatred

China's many nationalities need only to be transformed into the Chinese nation and to make it a highly civilized nation; then the nationalization process will be completed.

Sun Yat-sen

ProcessWillNeedNationChinaOnly

I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal.

Peter Jackson

WantAnythingFilmMakeSurrealToo

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Richard Avedon