I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
As fantastic as it is to have 'Vogue' and 'Vanity Fair' as places to work, I don't often get to shoot the kind of things I like to photograph in the way I like to photograph. — 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
