Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera. I cannot lift her to greater heights. She is already there. I can only record. I cannot interpret her. There is no going further than who she is. She has achieved in herself her ultimate portrait.

Richard Avedon's Popular Quotes

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such …

- Richard Avedon

How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good fami…

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And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though …

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It's not hard being great occasionally. It's difficult to be good consistently.

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

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A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

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

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

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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…

- Richard Avedon