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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 thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
— Richard Avedon
Tags: truth, portraiture, portraits, photography, perspective, inaacuracy, art, accuracy

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People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.
— Richard Avedon
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I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.
— Richard Avedon
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I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.
— Richard Avedon
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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?
— Richard Avedon
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People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.
— Richard Avedon
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