Quotes By Annie Leibovitz

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.

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.

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

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.

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 sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time.

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.

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

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

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

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

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.

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

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

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

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.

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

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.

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.

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.

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

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.