I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
As much as I'm not a journalist, I use journalism. And when you photograph a relationship, it's quite wonderful to let something… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
As soon as you put something to bed like the 'Women' book, you're never finished. There were portraits of people that I… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
“Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography. It seemed like you just had… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I'm a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money,… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we're really talking about is the guts of a… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
In this day and age of things moving so, so fast, we still long for things to stop, and we as a… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken,… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
My body was so instrumental to how I took pictures: it was practically a dance. I used to use my legs a lot; now… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share
I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a point a view; I… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share
“Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography. It seemed like you just had to decide… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share
As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share
I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share
When I started to be published I thought about Margaret Bourke-White and the whole journalistic approach to things. I believed I was supposed to… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share
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 Copy Share
When you involve people, they come out, you see them, you get to see their sense of humor. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share
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.… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share
I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start with your… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share
My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share
