Richard Avedon Quotes

Your home should be your home. People shouldn't be allowed to use whatever crazy lenses they use to catch you waking up in the morning.

I would never sign up to film my personal life.

I do get clocked. But it's not invasive to the point where it's upsetting. It doesn't encroach.

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show.

I don't like having my space invaded.

My private life... Nobody should care. I think it's weird.

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

I don't like having people pick me out on the street. I don't like the status - good, bad or indifferent. I don't like it. I want my private life back, and I'm never going to have it.

For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

I take the invasion of my personal space very seriously.

My favourite pastime used to be sitting on a park bench watching people. But after 'Jagged Little Pill,' the eyeballs turned, and I was the watched one.

I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.

I wasn't interested in having to live with a camera - I have a hard enough time getting along with myself. I don't need cameras around and all that action.

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

The privacy and dignity of our citizens are being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen – a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a [person's] life.

It may be that by watching everywhere we go, by watching everything we do, by analyzing every word we say, by waiting and passing judgment over every association we make and every person we love, that we could uncover a terrorist plot, or we could discover more criminals. But is that the kind of society we want to live in?

I don't like the idea of people following me around.

I can't imagine anything worse than being in a position that you're not allowed to live your life privately.

I don't want a lot of people nosing round my studio and bothering me. I don't want to see them at all. Let the dealers have all that bother.

I wouldn't want to be filmed in a bikini for 24 hours a day.

I'm always hoping no one is following me around with a camera.

I don't like being watched, and I don't like being told what to do, so acting is a very poor professional choice.

No one forgets the presence of the camera, no matter how long it's there.