Annie Leibovitz Quotes

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

    Artist  
  • I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

  • You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

  • Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.

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

  • 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 situation.

  • 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 be different, every single frame.

    Artist  
  • 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.

    Annie Leibovitz (1983). “Photographs”, Pantheon Books
  • In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

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

  • Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.

  • What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

    Artist  
    "Annie Leibovitz Puts Down Camera, Talks". Interview with Dave Weich, emerald.tufts.edu. November 23, 1999.
  • Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.

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

    Artist  
  • 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. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.

    Cameras  
    "Annie, get your flashgun" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2003.
  • I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

    Artist   Cameras  
  • There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

    Artist  
  • Photography is not something you retire from.

  • Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we're really talking about is the guts of a photograph. When you trust your point of view, that's when you start taking pictures.

  • I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up...This wasn't a photograph that others were taking, but I continued to take pictures.

  • I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

    "Annie Leibovitz: The Visionary" by Melissa Whitworth, www.glamour.com. October 31, 2012.
  • I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

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

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

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

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

  • 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 to be a woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities.

    Artist  
  • I don't try to overintellectua lize my concepts of people. In fact, the ideas I have, if you talk about them, they seem extremely corny and it's only in their execution that people can enjoy them...It's something I've learned to trust: The stupider it is, the better it looks.

  • You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can’t. It’s important to stay the course. I don’t think I would have lasted this long if I’d listened to anyone. You have to listen somewhat and then put that to the side and know that what you do matters.

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