“To be an artist, to be a photographer, you have to nurture the things that most people discard. You have to keep them alive in order to tap them. It’s been important to me my whole life not to let go of any of the things that most people would throw in the ashcan. I have to be in touch with my fragility, with the man in me and the woman in me, the child in me, the grandfather in me. All these things have to be kept alive.”

Richard Avedon