Richard Avedon Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.”

“Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.”

“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.”

“Faces are the ledgers of our experience.”

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

“People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.”

“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?”

“People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.”

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

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