Marilyn Monroe gave more to the still camera than any actress, any woman I've ever photographed; infinitely more … - Richard Avedon

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Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have you not often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them? Whence came the returning love that rose from unknown depths in your being, and swept away the anger and the injustice? You did not create that love. Probably you were not good enough to send for it by prayer. But it came. God sent it. He makes you love your children.

Richard Avedon

Marilyn Monroe gave more to the still camera than any actress, any woman I've ever photographed; infinitely more patient, more demanding of herself and more comfortable in front of the camera than away from it.

Actresses, Cameras, Comfortable, Front, Patient

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Snapshots that have been taken of me working show something I was not aware of at all, that over and over again I'm holding my own body or my own hands exactly like the person I'm photographing. I never knew I did that, and obviously what I'm doing is trying to feel, actually physically feel, the way he or she feels at the moment I'm photographing them in order to deepen the sense of connection.

Connection, Hands, Moment, Order, Person, Taken

I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera. I cannot lift her to greater heights. She is already there. I can only record. I cannot interpret her. There is no going further than who she is. She has achieved in herself her ultimate portrait.

Cameras, Forever, Greater, Portraits, Record

Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.

Capture, Move, Moving, People, Real

It's not hard being great occasionally. It's difficult to be good consistently.

Be Good, Difficult, Hard, Occasionally

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest.

Excellence, Face, Ideas, Reading, Seduced, Surface