Quotes by Richard Avedon

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