Dos citas de Richard Avedon

 

Marilyn Monroe, actress, New York, May 6, 1957

You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues.

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You can’t get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is manipulate that surface-gesture, costume, expression-radically and correctly.

Richard Avedon

Self Portrait  © The Richard Avedon Foundation