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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
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We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.-- P E R F O R M A N C ERichard Avedon
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A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks.Richard Avedon
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Faces are the ledgers of our experience.Richard Avedon
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.Richard Avedon