Richard Avedon quotes

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

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

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 think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.

It's in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface and Candor, without being run over, that I'm confronted with the questions about photography that matter most to me.

Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.