All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
– 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.
– Richard Avedon
I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.
– Richard Avedon
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.
– Richard Avedon
Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.
– Richard Avedon
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
– Richard Avedon
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.