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Photography Quotes by Annie Leibovitz
- As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.
- 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…
- Photography is not something you retire from.
- Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.
- I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about…
- People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.
- A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.
- 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.
- Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.
- 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 wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
More Photography Quotes
- All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. — Richard Avedon
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
- It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey
- Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions. — David Bailey
- I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it. — David Bailey
- 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
- There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. — Ansel Adams