156 Quotes by Annie Leibovitz

I don't have two lives. This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it.

Photography is not something you retire from.

As a young person, and I know it’s hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn’t do normally if I was just by myself.

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

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

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.

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

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.