People Quotes by Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment

Environment

People

Studios

Richard Avedon

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense… symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller – to find out how they are.

Doctors

People

Photography

Richard Avedon

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

Ideas

People

Photographer

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.

Men

People

Tree

Richard Avedon

i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people

Charm

People

Thinking

Richard Avedon

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.

Accomplishment

Differences

People

Richard Avedon

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

Cameras

People

Photography

Richard Avedon

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

Ambition

People

Running

Richard Avedon

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

Confusion

People

Roles

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.

Moving

People

Real

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Actresses

Advertising

Ambition

Art

Artist

Be Good

Believe

Cameras

Character

Charm

Children

Clue

Confusion

Differences

Difficult

Doctors

Dog

Environment

Essentials

Excellence

Expression

Eye

Faces

Facts

Fantasy

Fashion

Feelings

Fiction

Forever

Freedom

Fun

Gestures

Giving

Giving Up

Guy

Hands

Hard

Hate

Height

High Heels

Home

House

Ideas

Important

Inspirational

Jobs

Kindness

Knows

Legs

Levels

Light

Looks

Love You

Lying

Made

May

Mean

Men

Moving

Narrative

Night

Opinion

Order

Parent

Patient

People

Performances

Persons

Photographer

Photography

Pieces

Portraits

Predicaments

Reading

Real

Reality

Records

Roles

Running

Single Life

Sleep

Sometimes

Soul

Studios

Style

Taken

Thinking

Tree

Trying

Vanity

Wake Up

Wall

Want

Wanted

Way

White

Wine

Wish

Would Be

Writing

People Quotes by Richard Avedon

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense… symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller – to find out how they are.

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

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 think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people

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.

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

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

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

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.

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