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Photographer Quotes by 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 with your friends…
- 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 not any harder…
- If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
- All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive to a collaborative…
- A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
- There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
- When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a…
- Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes…
- When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.
- A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
- The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
- I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would…
- I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
- I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in…
- I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably sexy. I would…
- There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.
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- Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love. — David Bailey
- I never set out to be a photographer. — David Bailey
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- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams
- Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — Ansel Adams
- A good photograph is knowing where to stand. — Ansel Adams
- There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. — Ansel Adams
- A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams