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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 family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people.
— Richard Avedon
Tags: you, man, family, good

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