Annie Leibovitz Quotes
If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.
I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.
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.
What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.
When you involve people, they come out, you see them, you get to see their sense of humor.
I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time.
Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.
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.
There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm interested in whatever is going on. And I'm not that comfortable myself.
The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.
As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.
...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.
I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs. I just love the still photograph.
