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

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Richard Avedon

#Photography Quotes #People Quotes #Portraits Quotes

“Put in an honest day's work. It is the building block of a spiritual life.”
“I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.”
“And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.”
“He who hides his madman, dies voiceless.”

Source : Henri Michaux (1994). “Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984”, p.13, Univ of California Press
“Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience.”
“Should or can there be a single standard of behavior for both sexes? Is there such a thing as a biologically rooted female culture that should remain separate from male culture, partly because it is different than or superior to male culture? [Â¶] Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength and skill in themselves.”

Source : "Women And Madness". Book by Phyllis Chesler, 2005.
“Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.”
“We are a team. We share the ball, we share the game, we share the worries.”

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