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?

Next quotes

• Richard Avedon:

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

• Richard Avedon:

  I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tre

• Richard Avedon:

  People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions

• Richard Avedon:

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

• Richard Avedon:

  I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

• Richard Avedon:

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

• Richard Avedon:

  I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of a

• Richard Avedon:

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

• Richard Avedon:

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

• Richard Avedon:

  Click! In other words, I'm in a very controlling position, and I can bring... and I've already... i