Photography Quotes by Annie Leibovitz

As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.

— Annie Leibovitz

Photography is not something you retire from.

— Annie Leibovitz

I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

— Annie Leibovitz

I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

— Annie Leibovitz

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

— Annie Leibovitz

At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.

— Annie Leibovitz

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

— Annie Leibovitz

I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

— Annie Leibovitz

I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably…

— Annie Leibovitz

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

I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over…

— 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…

— Annie Leibovitz

A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think…

— 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,…

— 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…

— Annie Leibovitz

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

What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I…

— Annie Leibovitz

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert…

— Annie Leibovitz

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

“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

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

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

“For me, the story about the pictures is about almost losing myself, and coming back, and what it means to be deeply…

— Annie Leibovitz

When I was younger, I did things with a camera I would not do by myself. I remember going down to the…

— Annie Leibovitz

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

The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination…

— Annie Leibovitz

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

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

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

— Annie Leibovitz

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

— Annie Leibovitz

Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.

— Annie Leibovitz

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

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

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

— 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 must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

— Annie Leibovitz

I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside.

— 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

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