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Annie Leibovitz Quotes



Quotes by Annie Leibovitz - (20 quotes)

Annie Leibovitz - From the Earth category:

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. (Annie Leibovitz)

Annie Leibovitz - From the Exhibitions category:

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show. (Annie Leibovitz)

Annie Leibovitz - From the Fame category:

I'm more interested in being good than being famous. (Annie Leibovitz)

Annie Leibovitz - From the Gender category:

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful. (Annie Leibovitz)

Annie Leibovitz - From the Gender category:

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

Annie Leibovitz - From the Hope category:

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

Annie Leibovitz - From the Methodology category:

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures. (Annie Leibovitz)

Annie Leibovitz - From the Nature category:

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself. (Annie Leibovitz)

Annie Leibovitz - From the Photography category:

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)

Annie Leibovitz - From the Photography category:

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)

Annie Leibovitz - From the Photography category:

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal. (Annie Leibovitz)

Annie Leibovitz - From the Portraiture category:

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

Annie Leibovitz - From the Portraiture category:

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative. (Annie Leibovitz)

Annie Leibovitz - From the Portraiture category:

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not. (Annie Leibovitz)

Annie Leibovitz - From the Profession category:

I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a point a view; I liked to step across the imaginary boundary of the objective view that the journalist is supposed to have and be involved. (Annie Leibovitz)

Annie Leibovitz - From the Purpose category:

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. (Annie Leibovitz)

Annie Leibovitz - From the Questions category:

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, 'They are in the archives.' (Annie Leibovitz)

Annie Leibovitz - From the Reality category:

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth. (Annie Leibovitz)

Annie Leibovitz - From the Space category:

I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall. (Annie Leibovitz)

Annie Leibovitz - From the Studio category:

I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you. (Annie Leibovitz)