Richard Avedon Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Click! In other words, I'm in a very controlling position, and I can bring... and I've already... if the camera's on you, your face is very concentrated. You're listening. You don't know what I'm going to say next, and now you're smiling. All these things are the things I work with.”

“Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it; it's a pleasure to make a living that way. Then there's the deeper pleasure of doing my portraits.”

“Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.”

“My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.”

“There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my deeper work.”

“I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people.”

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