Annie Leibovitz Quotes

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.
Annie Leibovitz

Nature, Work, Yourself

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

Won, Computer, Chemical

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

Love, Afraid, Fall

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.
Annie Leibovitz

Someone, Means, Anyone

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

May, Point, View

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

Good, Famous, Interested

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

Love, Hope, Outside

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

Someone, Single, Different

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

Heart, Enjoy, Sometimes

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

Reason, Anyone, Talking

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

Nature, Living, Wish

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
Annie Leibovitz

Small, Metal, Camera

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

Forget, Makes, Looking

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

Life, Work, Boring

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.
Annie Leibovitz

Love, Career, Learned

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

Truth, Nothing, Reality

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

Picture, Difference, Subtle

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

Used, Camera, Protection

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

Boring, Enough, Face

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

Tired, After, Everyone

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.
Annie Leibovitz

Work, Find, Same

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

Women, Beautiful, Down

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

Problem, Wrong, Space

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

Care, Taken, Backyard

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

Work, Proud, Bright

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: October 1, 1949

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