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

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
Annie Leibovitz

At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
Annie Leibovitz

Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
Annie Leibovitz

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

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

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.
Annie Leibovitz

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

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


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

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

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

I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.
Annie Leibovitz

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

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.
Annie Leibovitz

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.
Annie Leibovitz

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.
Annie Leibovitz

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

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.
Annie Leibovitz