Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do. — 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
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
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
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
I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs.… — 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
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
I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up...This wasn't… — 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
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
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
