Richard Avedon Quotes

How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people.

I'm the father of two boys and two girls, so I'm more an emotional wreck than a mushball.

I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.

My dad was a produce man. He worked in grocery stores for 35 years. My mom just babysat kids and raised us. I have four sisters and one brother. I'm the baby.

They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.

Of course, the most important factor of all for long life is a good family. When a person goes home with the wife or the kids giving him endless headaches, then it's hard for that person to enjoy a long life. I am very fortunate, because my wife Elizabeth and my obedient children are very good; they have given me happiness.

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair, sitting with them while they do their homework, holding them while they weep their tragic tears. But I'm not in love with any of them. I am in love with my husband.

I don't get a lot of time with my children. My time is precious, and time with my two kids is like gold dust to me. I can't get that time back.

I'm being a dad and a good husband.

I've always been a family man and count myself as one of those who are lucky to have the comfort of a family.

I always have a camera now that I've got a kid, but I don't think I've got one picture of anyone other than my daughter.

I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

The walls of our upstairs hallway testify that we once had photogenic children. There are rows of framed pictures that show them playing baseball, basketball, holding a toad, and smiling in the sunlight at their eager parents. Everything is orderly and bright.

My wife and I are constantly bombarded with questions from our children, from the mundane and repetitive to the surprisingly insightful. It's amazing how many times three children can say 'Daddy' in just one hour, much less one day.

I have a kid so I like to take pictures.

What's nice about having kids close to the age they're playing is that you can actually capture awkwardness.

I am a family man, and I have children.

Everyone knows these stories about a wild and crazy guy called Bonzo, but at home he was just like any other father; always hollering at me for not doing my homework.