Annie Leibovitz Hot Quotations

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.

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.

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

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

Photography is not something you retire from.

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

I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

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

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

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.

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

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

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder to be a woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities.

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

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