Annie Leibovitz quotes and sayings
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.
Annie Leibovitz quotes
- When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
- 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.
- I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.
- I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do.
- Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
- What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.
- When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.
- Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
- 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.
- 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.