Top 87 Annie Leibovitz Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. 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.

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#3. As a young person, and I know it's hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn't do normally if I was just by myself.

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#4. A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

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#5. I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.

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#6. 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.

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

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

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#9. I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

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

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#11. Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.

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

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#13. I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

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#14. I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs. I just love the still photograph.

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#15. Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.

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

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#17. I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do.

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

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

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#20. I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you.

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#21. People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

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

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#23. When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.

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#24. 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.

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

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

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#27. When I'm asked about my work, I try to explain that there is no mystery involved. It is work. But things happen all the time that are unexpected, uncontrolled, unexplainable, even magical. The work prepares you for that moment. Suddenly the clouds roll in and the soft light you longed for appears.

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

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#29. 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.

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#30. 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.

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#31. When I was younger I did things with a camera I would not do by myself. I went down to the docks in San Francisco and asked a fisherman if he would take me out on his boat. I would never do that without a camera.

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#32. In this day and age of things moving so, so fast, we still long for things to stop, and we as a society love the still image. Every time there is some terrible or great moment, we remember the stills.

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#33. 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.

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

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

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

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#37. 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.

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#38. When you involve people, they come out, you see them, you get to see their sense of humor.

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#39. I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

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

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#41. You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't.

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

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

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#44. When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't true. What became important was to have a point of view.

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#45. I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

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#46. There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm interested in whatever is going on. And I'm not that comfortable myself.

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#47. If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.

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#48. What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.

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#49. 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.

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#50. Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it.

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#51. 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.

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#52. The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.

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#53. At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.

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

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#55. 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.

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#56. 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.

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#57. I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.

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#58. 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.

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#59. My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very long. These days I am much more comfortable with the fifteen minute relationship, than I am with a life long relationship.

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#60. I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

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#61. 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.

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#62. A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.

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#63. As much as I'm not a journalist, I use journalism. And when you photograph a relationship, it's quite wonderful to let something unfold in front of you.

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

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

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

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

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#68. One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

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#69. 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.

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#70. As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.

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#71. Photography is not something you retire from.

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#72. 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.

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#73. 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.

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#74. As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.

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

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#76. 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.

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#77. 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.

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#78. 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.

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#79. 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.

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

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#81. There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

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#82. 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.

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#83. 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.

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#84. The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

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#85. 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.

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#86. 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.

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#87. 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.

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