My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
Interpretation
We should cherish our loved spaces while also exploring beyond them.
Annie Leibovitz emphasizes the importance of valuing the familiar places we hold dear, such as our homes, communities, and memories, while also encouraging us to broaden our perspectives and discover new environments and experiences. This balance between nurturing our attachments and embracing the unknown fosters personal growth and a deeper appreciation of the world around us.
In practice
In a speech about environmental conservation, one might say this quote to highlight the importance of protecting cherished areas while expanding our horizons.
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 was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.
I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.
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.
The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair to ask if I took the moderation part to heart. But it certainly was a lesson in respecting your camera. If I was going to live with this thing, I was going to have to think about what that meant. There were not going to be any pictures without it.
A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.
Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.
The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
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