Ace 25 Selected Quotes By - Annie Leibovitz
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Ace 25 Selected Quotes By - Annie Leibovitze |
I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.
— Annie Leibovitz
I fight to take a good photograph every single time.
— Annie Leibovitz
I don't think I could give advice to my younger self because she probably wouldn't listen.
— 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
I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.
— Annie Leibovitz
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.
— Annie Leibovitz
I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
— Annie Leibovitz
I can't stand the word 'celebrity.' It's such a brash word.
— Annie Leibovitz
It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
— Annie Leibovitz
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.
— Annie Leibovitz
You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
— Annie Leibovitz
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.
— Annie Leibovitz
I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside.
— Annie Leibovitz
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.
— 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
I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.
— 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 must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
— Annie Leibovitz
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.
— Annie Leibovitz
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.
— Annie Leibovitz
I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.
— 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
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.
— Annie Leibovitz
Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
— Annie Leibovitz
At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
— Annie Leibovitz
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