Explore Quotes by 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.

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

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

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

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 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.

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.

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

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

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

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

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.

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.

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.

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

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