Annie Leibovitz

My body was so instrumental to how I took pictures: it was practically a dance. I used to use my legs a…

— Annie Leibovitz

I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a point 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

As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.

— 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

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

— Annie Leibovitz

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the…

— Annie Leibovitz

When I started to be published I thought about Margaret Bourke-White and the whole journalistic approach to things. I believed I was…

— Annie Leibovitz

A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.

— 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

When you involve people, they come out, you see them, you get to see their sense of humor.

— Annie Leibovitz

If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away,…

— 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

My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the…

— 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

There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

— Annie Leibovitz

I went to Yosemite as an homage to Ansel Adams. I could never be Ansel Adams, but to know that's there for…

— Annie Leibovitz

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

— 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

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

I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.

— Annie Leibovitz

I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do.

— 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

“Abraham helped build their cabin and split rails for a fence, but he soon left home for good. The log cabin near…

— Annie Leibovitz

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to…

— Annie Leibovitz