Quotes by Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz

American portrait photographer

Lived from: 1949 -

Born: 2 october 1949

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  • It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
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  • It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
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  • Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
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  • My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
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  • My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.
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  • 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.
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  • No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.
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  • Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.
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  • The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
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  • The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.
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  • The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!
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  • There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.
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  • There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
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  • What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.
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  • What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.
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  • 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.
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  • When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
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