Quotes By Annie Leibovitz

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

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

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

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.

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.

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 companion.

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