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
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the… — 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
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
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
There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject. — 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
I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive… — 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
As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like… — 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
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
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
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me. — 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 Frank. But… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
When you involve people, they come out, you see them, you get to see their sense of humor. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
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 Image
