Richard Avedon Quotes

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.

What keeps me going is that this I all there is. I am a comedian, and this is what I do. It's like telling a fish to stop swimming. It'll die.

If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.

I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

Music, even if I ended up doing something different or do end up doing something different in the long run, it's just something that is life blood. If I'm not participating in some way, I feel like I'm wasting my time.

Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.

If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.

Working is living to me.

I am motivated to write because it is what I am meant to do. It is not a choice - it is what I am. I did not choose writing - it chose me. And I believe it is necessarily that way. Anyone doing this for some other reason should not be.

Work has been the central column for most of my life; it has always been my identity.

I'm a singer, and I never lost sight of that.

When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.'

I don't have much in life but my work is what makes me alive.

I wouldn't be alive without my work.

Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.

I can honestly say my music is always going to be greater than my business side. Because I'm naturally a musician. And I don't have to get paid, I don't even have to have businesses. Business is business. And music is life.

I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.