Quotes By Annie Leibovitz

I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.

If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.