Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz

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
Annie Leibovitz

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
Annie Leibovitz

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

Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz

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

Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz

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

Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz

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
Annie Leibovitz

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.

Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz

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
Annie Leibovitz

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz

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
Annie Leibovitz

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

Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz

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.

Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz

I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.

Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz

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.

Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz

I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz

As much as I'm not a journalist, I use journalism. And when you photograph a relationship, it's quite wonderful to let something unfold in front of you.

Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.