"Photography need no longer bide its time, or bite its nails, in underground dens or unvisited wings of the major museums; it is right there in the throne rooms, and in order to reach Avedon's Groucho, say---balding, black sweatered, solemnly dreaming of something off-camera---you have to stride through a vista of Rodins."

----"Head On: A Richard Avedon Retrospective", as quoted from Anthony Lane in this week's New Yorker.