Annie Leibovitz Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I fight to take a good photograph every single time.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.”

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

“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.”