156 Quotes by Annie Leibovitz

Things happen in front of you. That’s perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography. It seemed like you just had to decide when and where to aim the camera. The process was linear and it never stopped. That’s still true, although I’ve traded in my need for always taking pictures. I can’t let them go by sometimes now and just be there.

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

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you’re with someone, like you have a companion.

I’ve created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we’re really talking about is the guts of a photograph. When you trust your point of view, that’s when you start taking pictures.

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

All dancers are, by and large, a photographer’s dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive to a collaborative situation.

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

For me, the story about the pictures is about almost losing myself, and coming back, and what it means to be deeply involved in a subject. The thing that saved me was that I had my camera by my side. It was there to remind me who I was and what I did. It separated me from them.