156 Quotes by Annie Leibovitz

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

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.

There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

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.

What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

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

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.