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In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

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Richard Avedon

I believe that you've got to love your work so much that it is all you want to do.

Believe, Love, Love You, Want, Work
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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
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