Start with a style and you ...

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.
Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.
 Richard Avedon

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people
 Richard Avedon
I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.
 Richard Avedon
And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.
 Richard Avedon
I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again.
 Richard Avedon
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
 Richard Avedon