{"author":"Richard Avedon","author_id":"Richard+Avedon","total_quotes":5,"quotes":[{"text":"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. ","author":"Richard Avedon","tags":["accuracy","art","inaacuracy","perspective","photography","portraits","portraiture","truth"],"id":4133,"author_id":"Richard+Avedon"},{"text":"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.","author":"Richard Avedon","tags":["portrait","picture","looks "],"id":256613,"author_id":"Richard+Avedon"},{"text":"I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.","author":"Richard Avedon","tags":["work","eyes","hate "],"id":287276,"author_id":"Richard+Avedon"},{"text":"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.--PERFORMANCE.","author":"Richard Avedon","tags":["photography"],"id":350421,"author_id":"Richard+Avedon"},{"text":"Faces are the ledgers of our experience.","author":"Richard Avedon","tags":["faces","our "],"id":458298,"author_id":"Richard+Avedon"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}