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. – Annie Leibovitz
Those who want to be serious photographers, you’re really going to have to edit your work. You’re going to have to understand what you’re doing. You’re going to have to not just shoot, shoot, shoot. To stop and look at your work is the most important thing you can do. – Annie Leibovitz
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
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. – Annie Leibovitz
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
Computer photography won’t be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical. – Annie Leibovitz
When you go to take someone’s picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward. – Annie Leibovitz
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
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
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. – Annie Leibovitz
There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject. – Annie Leibovitz
I’ve never liked the word ‘celebrity.’ I like to photograph people who are good at what they do. – Annie Leibovitz
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds. – Annie Leibovitz
I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected. – Annie Leibovitz
I’m a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first photograph: an Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then I bought a Robert Frank. – Annie Leibovitz
I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour. – Annie Leibovitz
The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo! – Annie Leibovitz
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
I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn’t be an art teacher unless I became an artist first. – Annie Leibovitz
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
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
I feel very proud of the work from the ’80s because it is very bright and colorful. – Annie Leibovitz
I went to Yosemite as an homage to Ansel Adams. I could never be Ansel Adams, but to know that’s there for us – there’s so much for us in this country. – Annie Leibovitz
I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably sexy. I would spend all night in the darkroom. – Annie Leibovitz
My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can’t come in closer with the 35 mm. – Annie Leibovitz
