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

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

Richard Avedon

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

Richard Avedon

How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? 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.

Richard Avedon

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.

Richard Avedon

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.

Richard Avedon

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

Richard Avedon

Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.

Richard Avedon

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

Richard Avedon

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

Richard Avedon

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

Richard Avedon

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

Richard Avedon

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

Richard Avedon

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

Richard Avedon

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

Richard Avedon

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?

Richard Avedon

Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.

Richard Avedon