Quotes By Annie Leibovitz

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.

I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time.

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.

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

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

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

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