Quotes by Annie Leibovitz

“Photography is not something you retire from.”

“As a young person, and I know its 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 an...”

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

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

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

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

“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...”

“I'm more interested in being good than being famous.”

“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.”

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

“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 be...”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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 a...”