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.
From a technical viewpoint, I have certain things I'd like to present in my solos. To do this, I have to get the right material. It has to swing, and it has to be varied.
A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.
Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!
In those days, a gay man was made to feel nothing but shame about his feelings and his sexuality. I wanted my drawings to counteract that, to show gay men being happy and positive about who they were. Oh, I didn't sit down to think this all out carefully. But I knew - right from the start - that my men were going to be proud and happy men!
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