92 Quotes by Richard Avedon

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

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.

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

I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again.

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.

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

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

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

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.