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

Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
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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.
- Annie Leibovitz Quote

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

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
- Annie Leibovitz Quote

I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.
- Annie Leibovitz Quote

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

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.
- Annie Leibovitz Quote

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
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It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
- Annie Leibovitz Quote

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
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My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.
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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 Quote

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 Quote

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.
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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.
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There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.
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What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
- Annie Leibovitz Quote

What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
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