Annie Leibovitz Quotes

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.

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'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.

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

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.

Photography is not something you retire from.

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

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