Annie Leibovitz Quotes
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Coming tight was boring to me, just the face ... it didn't have enough information.
— Annie Leibovitz
As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.
— Annie Leibovitz
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.
— Annie Leibovitz
No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.
— Annie Leibovitz
Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
— Annie Leibovitz
When you involve people, they come out, you see them, you get to see their sense of humor.
— Annie Leibovitz
The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.
— Annie Leibovitz
Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.
— Annie Leibovitz
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I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do.
— Annie Leibovitz
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
— Annie Leibovitz
You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't.
— Annie Leibovitz
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
A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.
— Annie Leibovitz
I fight to take a good photograph every single time.
— Annie Leibovitz
Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.
— Annie Leibovitz
I'm more interested in being good than being famous.
— Annie Leibovitz
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
It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
— Annie Leibovitz
As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.
— Annie Leibovitz
I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.
— Annie Leibovitz
I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs. I just love the still photograph.
— Annie Leibovitz
If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
— Annie Leibovitz
I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.
— Annie Leibovitz
I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.
— 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
What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
— Annie Leibovitz
What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.
— Annie Leibovitz
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
I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.
— Annie Leibovitz
There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
— Annie Leibovitz
Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.
— Annie Leibovitz
A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.
— Annie Leibovitz
Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it.
— Annie Leibovitz
One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.
— Annie Leibovitz
When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
— Annie Leibovitz
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
— Annie Leibovitz
A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
— Annie Leibovitz
I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about 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
Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
— Annie Leibovitz
My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.
— Annie Leibovitz
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
There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.
— Annie Leibovitz
When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.
— 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
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
People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.
— 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 gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.
— Annie Leibovitz
I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.
— Annie Leibovitz
A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.
— Annie Leibovitz
There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.
— 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
Photography is not something you retire from.
— Annie Leibovitz