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All Quotes by author - Annie Leibovitz
" A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people. "
People
Fall
Love
" A very subtle difference can make the picture or not. "
Subtle
Picture
Make
" Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives. "
Always
You
Tired
" 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. "
Picture
I Am
You
" 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. "
Stereotypes
Aging
Women
" I don't think I could give advice to my younger self because she probably wouldn't listen. "
Give
She
Think
" I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful. "
Bright
Feel
Work
" I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably sexy. I would spend all night in the darkroom. "
Time
Photographer
Sexy
" 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. "
Here
Camera
Think
" I fight to take a good photograph every single time. "
Good
Time
Single
" I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside. "
Love
Photography
You
" I'm more interested in being good than being famous. "
Good
More
Famous
" 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. "
View
Picture
May
" It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time. "
Time
Hard
Go
" I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures. "
Take
Create
Ways
" I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do. "
Like
People
Good
" I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. "
Living
Wish
Place
" My father was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, which had a hospital where they brought casualties straight from the battlefield. My mother was kind of a sophisticated bohemian, and my father was in the military to make a living. "
Hospital
Mother
Living
" 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. "
Nature
Dance
Light
" The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much. "
Like
Camera
You
" 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. "
Day
Understand
Mystery
" 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. "
Look
Serious
Stop
" 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. "
Know
Want
Say
" When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing. "
You
Your
Time
" You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth. "
Stranger
Nothing
Reality
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