Annie Leibovitz Quotes

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• 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.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

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• One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Inspirational, Photography, Insightful

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• 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.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Views, Talking, People

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• Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Photography, Mysterious, Wonderful

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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.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Inspirational, Photography, Mean

  Annie Leibovitz (1983). “Photographs”, Pantheon Books

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

  Annie Leibovitz

  Inspirational, Photography, Falling In Love

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• A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Moments, Happens

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• You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can’t. It’s important to stay the course. I don’t think I would have lasted this long if I’d listened to anyone. You have to listen somewhat and then put that to the side and know that what you do matters.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Thinking, Long, Important

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• Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Nature, Strong, Powerful

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• There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder to be a woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Photography, Artist, Opportunity

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• In this day and age of things moving so, so fast, we still long for things to stop, and we as a society love the still image. Every time there is some terrible or great moment, we remember the stills.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Moving, Long, Age

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

  Annie Leibovitz

  Fame, Be Good, Being Famous

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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.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

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• A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Thinking, Pieces, Tiny

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• A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Differences, Photographer, Subtle

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• You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Inspiring, Thinking, Trying

  "Annie Leibovitz On Getting The Shot–And The Future Of Photography". Interview with Rae Ann Fera, www.fastcompany.com. June 28, 2013.

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• Photography is not something you retire from.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Photography, Retiring

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

  Annie Leibovitz

  Inspirational, Photography, Land

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• I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Photography, Taken, Mean

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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.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Dance, Strong, Powerful

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• Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Photography, Baby, Needs

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• 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.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Views, Portraits, May

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• When I'm asked about my work, I try to explain that there is no mystery involved. It is work. But things happen all the time that are unexpected, uncontrolled, unexplainable, even magical. The work prepares you for that moment. Suddenly the clouds roll in and the soft light you longed for appears.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Clouds, Light, Trying

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• Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Hard Work, Successful, People

  "Annie Leibovitz Puts Down Camera, Talks". Interview with Dave Weich, emerald.tufts.edu. 1999.

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

  Annie Leibovitz

  Reality, Photographer, Stranger

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