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Richard Avedon Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: photographer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 15, 1923 - October 1, 2004

Topics

Moment Opinion Emotion Photograph

I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.

If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.

Art Year Back New Old Gone

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.

Nature Me Easy Ready Enemy My Own

I have a very strict regimen of showing up at my desk at a certain hour with my cup of green tea. It is very quiet. I don't like having a lot of atmosphere around.

Melissa Rosenberg

Tea Green Showing Up Quiet Desk Up

I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has the identity of that place - Claridge's in London, the Danieli or Cipriani in Venice. In New York, I stay at the Mercer Hotel; it is so much in the character of SoHo.

Character New York Identity City New

I came to my Marxist view as a result of having struggled as a nationalist and found certain dead ends theoretically and ideologically, as far as nationalism was concerned, and had to reach out for a communist ideology.

Reach View Nationalism Result Dead

I love detail, like drawing what's on top of someone's coffee table. Maybe there's a little bowl of butterscotch candies on it, next to the four TV remotes.

Love Coffee Detail Someone Drawing

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

Work Success Hate Job Face You

I may never know what type of effect I have on my sons, just like Granny never knew the effect she had on me. So I just try and make the best decisions that I can, be the best father that I can.

Father Best Me Decisions I Can Know

Every time I'm in there, that's the best Aldo possible.

Time Best Possible Every Every Time

Just pushing myself for more rounds at a higher pace in training. Your focus should be grounded in what you do, and that's fighting. I'm getting my cardio that way.

Myself Focus Training Fighting You

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones.

Good Time Government Decisions You

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