Annie Leibovitz Photography Quotations

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.

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

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

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

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.

Photography is not something you retire from.

As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.

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.

Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.

There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder to be a woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities.

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.