Explore Quotes by Annie Leibovitz

I was with Tom Wolfe at the launch of Apollo 17, which led him to 'The Right Stuff.'

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

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.

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.

I was scared when I went to Conde Nast. I had heard horror stories about how they used you up and then spit you out and went on. But there was this great history of photography that had been done there.

I don't think I could give advice to my younger self because she probably wouldn't listen.

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

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

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

I try to be home for dinner, but I'm not there enough. I sometimes feel I'm still fumbling, getting it wrong, but I make my way.

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

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.

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.

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.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.