Quotes by : Richard Avedon

Faces are the ledgers of our experience.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does....

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

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no....

We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way....